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[Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Mirko Wilhelmi <thegreatwiper AT web.de> wrote:
> Hi @all,
>
> a severe issue arised this evening, casting any spell fails when it
> comes to installing it. This is what the logs are saying:
>
> castfs: checking sanity of <mnt-dir> and <stage-dir>
> castfs: stagedir is okay!
>  HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  BLKROGET failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  BLKRAGET failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> /usr/src/stage-expat-2.1.0/MOUNT:
>  BLKGETSIZE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  BLKROGET failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  BLKRAGET failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>  BLKGETSIZE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> /usr/src/stage-expat-2.1.0/MOUNT:
> INSTALL failed!
>
>
> Imho this seems hdparm related, but what has hdparm to do with
> installing spells?
>
> Running hdparm manually seems to work fine.
>
> My root device is a Crucial M4 SSD and the filesystem is
> btrfs (btrfs-progs: 0.20-rc1-dirty, Kernel: 3.5.4).
>
> Greetings
> Mirko


IIRC you were trying to setup encryption on your drive. If you did set
it up, this may be your cause.

If not, try turning on super debugging for castfs and posting the
debug file. You can always dispel castfs until you get this sorted
out. Sorcery will use installwatch instead.