Bug#399387: lvm2: fails to load libncurses at boot when root under lvm

[Romain Beauxis]

Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.06-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


	Hi !

Every upgrade that recreates my initramfs leads to a full failure of the
next boot.

Failure is because my root is under lvm, and the kernel fails to load
the volumes at boot and issue a log like:
vgchange: cannot locate libncurses.xxx

Then boot is frozen and nothing can be done.

The solution I do is to boot on a seperate live CD and then mount back
all the system, and chroot into it and then dpkg-reconfigure
linux-image-2.6.18-xx...

I don't know where to put that bug since it involves many packages, so I
send there since it is at least an issue on vgchange.

Also setting as critical since it leads to a complete unusable system.


Romain


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-amd64
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.9       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 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                  1.32-3      SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                    1.14-2      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: