[Mageia-dev] System doen't boot with LVM

Thu Feb 21 14:46:28 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 21/02/13 11:08 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 20/02/13 23:19 did gyre and gimble:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 20/02/13 20:13 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 20/02/13 18:13 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>>> * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Iirc I replaced for_each_host_dev_and_slaves by
+>>>>> for_each_host_dev_and_slaves_all.
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Honestly I don't understand what it change...
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Hope this help.
+>>>>
+>>>> Yes, that helps a lot.
+>>>>
+>>>> I'm not sure why it makes a difference (considering my own setup here is
+>>>> at least partially similar to yours), but I'll definitely dig into it more.
+>>>>
+>>>> Can you describe the LVM setup? i.e. how the lvm sits on top of the
+>>>> physical disks etc? I really want to try and reproduce the issue so I
+>>>> can make a good upstream explanation of the problem with the patch.
+>>>
+>>> Sure, my disk is a SSD:
+>>>
+>>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
+>>>    /dev/sda1              63       80324       40131   de  Dell Utility
+>>>    /dev/sda2   *       81920     1622015      770048    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
+>>>    /dev/sda3         1622016   124499967    61438976    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
+>>>    /dev/sda4       124502016   500105215   187801600    5  Extended
+>>>    /dev/sda5       124506112   125547974      520931+  83  Linux
+>>>    /dev/sda6       125550592   500103449   187276429   8e  Linux LVM
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> /dev/sda5 = /boot
+>>>
+>>> /dev/sda6 = the whole lvm
+>>>
+>>> [root at localhost foo]# lvs
+>>>   LV    VG          Attr      LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Move Log Copy% Convert
+>>>     crypt sagittarius -wi-ao--- 141,01g                                           
+>>>     root  sagittarius -wi-ao---  12,77g                                           
+>>>     swap  sagittarius -wi-ao---   3,91g                                           
+>>>     tmp   sagittarius -wi-ao---   3,00g                                           
+>>>     var   sagittarius -wi-ao---   1,95g
+>>>
+>>> the "crypt" lv is my /home:
+>>>
+>>> /dev/mapper/crypt_sagittarius_crypt on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=600,data=ordered)
+>>>
+>>> Don't hesitate if you need more output, especially device and dm number.
+>>>
+>>> I can produce debug output of dracut too if necessary.
+>>
+>>
+>> If you could supply debug output when generating initrd both with the
+>> packaged version and your patched version that would be very useful and
+>> may allow me to avoid having to exactly duplicate the setup!!
+> 
+> Actually no need for debug output. I spoke to Harald upstream and he
+> reckoned your change is indeed correct and required. I'll patch our
+> package shortly.
+> 
+> Thank you very much for debugging this and being so patient :)
+
+commit 7d4d3f8da624ccc27798b01fdd0f3c594267f53a (HEAD, origin/master,
+origin/HEAD, master)
+Author: Harald Hoyer <harald at ...>
+Date:   Thu Feb 21 12:07:34 2013 +0100
+
+    lvm/module-setup.sh: use for_each_host_dev_and_slaves_all
+
+    Use for_each_host_dev_and_slaves_all to get all lvm setups for the
+    host-only case.
+
+    Thanks to Olivier Thauvin
+
+Available soon in dracut-025-4.mga3.
+
+Thanks again!
+
+Col
+
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