Comment 4 for bug 23835

I don't think it has anything to do with a newer lilo. I had sometimes problems with my system that forced me to rerun lilo. I have all my partitions except the swap under LVM, including / (and no specific partition for /boot).
It worked perfectly for ages, and now I get the same error:

bateleur:~# lilo
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
    Name change: '/dev/dm-8' -> '/dev/mapper/gobelet-backup'
device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address
Fatal: device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) failed

But I run lilo from etch (package version 1:22.6.1-7), which has entered the archive for nearly 9 months (see http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lilo.html).