[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

Sun Dec 18 01:04:20 CET 2011

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:21:14 -0500, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+
+> Dracut should install all dynamic libs needed by apps. Which app needs
+> this library specifically?
+
+When I tried to boot after running dracut with the default config, I
+was dropped to a shell, with the non-lvm root mounted.
+
+I then tried running "/sbin/lvm vgchange -a y --ignorelockingfailure",
+and it failed due to the missing libncursesw.so.5 module.
+
+Now that I think about it, a bit more, I think I had already been
+chrooted into the root, so since /usr hadn't been mounted, of course
+the module could not be accessed.  Something else must have gone wrong
+before the chroot, that I didn't see.
+
+> So I've got the necessary lib... I wonder if this is a side effect of me
+> having lib64ncursesw-devel-5.9-2.mga2 installed (i.e. the dev package)?
+> Perhaps it's someone the key to including the right lib? Perhaps you can
+> test by installing the 32 bit devel package and seeing if the lib is
+> then included automatically?
+
+I'll test that, and report back.
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
+