dm-linear error: Device lookup failed

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dm-linear error: Device lookup failed

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[PROBLEM]
Doing a dist-upgrade from Feisty to Hardy, I suddenly received the following error message repeatingly on tty's:
device-mapper: table: 254:6: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
It seems to be a known bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/151978


An ugly side-effect was that some partitions couldn't be mounted anymore - including the one containing /home. This caused my kde to puke after startup with the following error:
Could Not Start Kstartupconfig. Check your Installation

[SOLUTION]
I had to remove the package "evms":

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apt-get remove evms
...and then rebooted.
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