Issue with kpartx

Hi

Getting the below issue while running the kpartx command. Any one can suggest to get out of this issue? Thanks in advance.

Error Details:

[root@localhost mapper]# kpartx -a /dev/sda3
device-mapper: reload ioctl on sda3p1 failed: Invalid argument
create/reload failed on sda3p1
device-mapper: reload ioctl on sda3p2 failed: Invalid argument
create/reload failed on sda3p2

Metadata may be needed:

[root@localhost mapper]# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0  100G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0  300M  0 part /boot
├─sda2   8:2    0  3.9G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda3   8:3    0 95.8G  0 part /
sr0     11:0    1   50M  0 rom
sr1     11:1    1  3.6G  0 rom

[root@localhost mapper]# fdisk -l /dev/sda3

Disk /dev/sda3: 102.9 GB, 102864257024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12505 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3b947d86

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda3p1               1        5000    40162468+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3p2            5001       10000    40162500   83  Linux