Bug#242255: marked as done (lvm2 does not work with devfs)

Wed Sep 28 16:18:23 UTC 2005

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From: Norbert Veber <nveber at pyre.virge.net>
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Subject: lvm2 does not work with devfs
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Package: lvm2
Version: 2.00.08-4
Severity: important

Hi,

If you have devfs mounted on /dev, most lvm2 commands take about 5
minutes to execute.  vgcfgbackup (which is run from the postinst)
segfaulted when I first installed the package.  I later purged and
re-installed, at which point the postinst got stuck on vgcfgbackup.  An
strace revealed that it was in an inifinte loop traversing /dev.

The other problem is that when you run vgcreate, a directory for the
volume group is not created.  For instance if I try to create vg00, and
then a "test" lv under it, both commands complete sucessfully, but there
will be no /dev/vg00/test device.  At this point its impossible to use
the logical volume, or to even remove it.  The lvremove command insists
on being given a device name, except no device name exists.

Once I booted with devfs disabled, everything worked fine.

It looks like lvm2 was not designed with devfs in mind.  The package
should detect the presence of devfs, and refuse to install, or at least
give a warning to the user.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdevmapper1.00            2:1.00.07-4  The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  lvm-common                  1.5.12       The Logical Volume Manager for Lin

-- no debconf information

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From: Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org>
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Version: 2.00.19-1

The submitter describes this bug as fixed, closing.

Bastian

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