Bug#397509: lvm2 doesn't find the volume group at boot time

[Tino Keitel]

Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.06-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

my laptop reported unavailable file systems during boot and started a
maintainance shell.

I saw that the file systems can not be mounted because there are no
/dev/<vg>/<lv> symlinks that I use in the fstab. However, the devices in
/dev/mapper are present. I suppose that's because vgchange is used in the
initrd.

If I type "/etc/init.d/lvm start" in the maintainance shell, the VG will be
found and the /dev/<vg> directory will be created, with all the LV symlinks
in it. I now changed all fstab entries to use /dev/mapper/<vg>-<lv> and my
system boots again.

After boot, I did this:

$ ls /dev/t23 ; ls /dev/mapper/t23-usr
ls: /dev/t23: No such file or directory
/dev/mapper/t23-usr

$ /etc/init.d/lvm start
Setting up LVM Volume Groups...
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "t23" using metadata type lvm2
  5 logical volume(s) in volume group "t23" now active

Now, /dev/t23 exists.

I can see the output of the lvm initscript before the system failed to boot,
so the initscript is run and the VG should be found.

This is a freshly installed Etch system (2006-11-04), with no lvm2 or udev
upgrades since then.

I should mention that the VG resides on a dm-crypt device that is
initialized in the initrd.

Regards,
Tino

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.8       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02             2:1.02.08-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5                 5.2-1       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libselinux1                  1.32-2      SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                    1.14-1      Security Enhanced Linux policy lib
ii  lvm-common                   1.5.20      The Logical Volume Manager for Lin

lvm2 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  lvm2/snapshots: