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Hodgins at 18/12/11 00:04 did gyre and gimble: +><i> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:21:14 -0500, Colin Guthrie +</I>><i> <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote: +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> Dracut should install all dynamic libs needed by apps. Which app needs +</I>>><i> this library specifically? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> When I tried to boot after running dracut with the default config, I +</I>><i> was dropped to a shell, with the non-lvm root mounted. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I then tried running "/sbin/lvm vgchange -a y --ignorelockingfailure", +</I>><i> and it failed due to the missing libncursesw.so.5 module. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Now that I think about it, a bit more, I think I had already been +</I>><i> chrooted into the root, so since /usr hadn't been mounted, of course +</I>><i> the module could not be accessed. Something else must have gone wrong +</I>><i> before the chroot, that I didn't see. +</I> +Ahhh interesting. Could have been a filesystem check error. What +filesystem do you have on your /usr ? (obviously on top of the lvm layer). + +Did typing "mount /usr" just work? After that (and typing exit) does +everything work as expected? + +><i> Do you have /usr on a logical volume? +</I> +In my test VM yes, I had / on ext4 and /usr on LVM also with ext4. + +><i> I've figured out now, that /lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/50mount-usr.sh is +</I>><i> failing, as lvm has not yet been activated. +</I> +That's strange, as lvm should be activated by then. Was the lvm module +included in your ramfs? The latest version should detect LVM on the /usr +partition, but it's perhaps not full proof (I only tested it in my test +vm when I wrote it). + +><i> Later, I'm dropped to a shell, after the switch to the new root, and +</I>><i> since /usr hasn't been mounted, any commands that try to load +</I>><i> /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5 such as lvm, grep, or less, will fail. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> When I've copied /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5* to /lib and run ldconfig, +</I>><i> it still fails in 50mount-usr, but succeeds later, after the root +</I>><i> switch. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The dm-mod module loading, and the "lvm vgchange -ay --sysinit" command +</I>><i> should be run before looking for the root file system, as it too could be +</I>><i> on a logical volume. +</I> +They all should be (and are for me). I suspect the missing link is that +the lvm module is not being included in your ramfs... If we can work out +why it would be great. + +The shell script you'll need to tweak is +/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90lvm/module-setup.sh. + +The code is fairly easy to follow and you can probably hack out the bits +to make it a simple runable script to see if you can work out why lvm is +not being included. + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="010607.html">[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="010660.html">[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#10621">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#10621">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#10621">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#10621">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |