[Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

Fri Feb 3 17:00:15 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 03/02/12 04:37 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:22:30 -0500, Colin Guthrie
+> <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 
+>> Are things working OK for you now with dracut or is it still busted?
+> 
+> I've finally figured out why it wasn't working for my system.
+> 
+> Two separate problems.
+> 
+> First, /dev/$volumegroup/$logicalvolume symlinks are no longer created.
+> My fstab had ...
+> /dev/91/usr /usr ext4 defaults,relatime,user_xattr 1 2
+> which used to work, but /dev/91/usr is not created when
+> the lvm scan is run. /dev/mapper/91-usr is created, but not /dev/91/usr.
+
+That's interesting... I get those symlinks here :s (tho' I am running a
+slightly newer udev, so perhaps the version in your initrd is to blame?)
+
+> Second, on my single core system, the loop to process the things found by
+> udev only ran
+> while :; do
+> 
+>     check_finished && break
+> at which point it ended the loop, without trying to run the initqueue jobs.
+> 
+> I've attached a patch to fix the init script.
+
+Interesting, but I'm not sure I fully agree with this. The initqueue is
+very specifically skipped when certain circumstances are reached. There
+must be a reason for this, but I'm not immediately able to say what.
+I'll ask Harald.
+
+That said, I've already written a reply to your other mail with a longer
+explanation of what I think could be going on... there are a few
+questions in there for you :)
+
+> Would you prefer I open a new bug report for this?
+
+Nah, no worries. I've seen it now :)
+
+Col
+
+
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