Bug#438582: lvm-common: /etc/init.d/lvm stop hangs if a volume is mounted.

[Tim Phipps]

Package: lvm-common
Version: 1.5.20
Severity: important


For whatever reason /home could not be unmounted (actually a USB DVB-T
tuner had gone awol and the process attached could not be killed, so
that processes cwd could not be unmounted). vgchange hangs with the
message 'Can't deactivate vol group "vg1" with 1 open logical volume'.

It should time out, or give up. Just hanging is no good, the system
isn't usable and you have to just power off which is a greater risk of
data loss than just giving up and going to reboot.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-hippo-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lvm-common depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  module-init-tools      3.3-pre4-2        tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages lvm-common recommends:
ii  logrotate                     3.7.1-3    Log rotation utility

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