Bug#771685: lvm2: system fails to boot when using lvm2 with upstart

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Sat Dec 6 21:35:52 UTC 2014


Control: severity -1 important

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 05:52:51PM +0100, ewew wrote:
> Justification: renders package unusable

It works fine with sysvinit.

> Recently i haved tested upstart on debian jessie with lvm, but problem with
> boot has appeared. The system is unable to boot when lvm volume is created.

So the problem is triggered by the existence on a lvm volume?

> It seems that boot can continue if no lvm volume is created, but needed library
> can by present in the system. Other solutions on this problem has not been effective. Even lvm2.conf file from debian does not work.

I have problems parsing this sentences.

> Debug indicates that upstart is stuck on some kind of signal or something.

upstart is known to do nasty things with ptrace, not sure.

> Attempt to mount desired lvm volumes from command line was successfull with init replaced with bash.

So you showed that lvm2 works fine by itself.

Bastian

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