Bug#881314: lvm2 upgrade causes boot failure

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 10/11/17 20:02, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 06:37:36PM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>> Severity: critical
>> Justification: breaks the whole system
> Nope, it only breaks itself.

Well, it only breaks systems that use it.

>> upgrading to lvm2 2.02.176-2 (and related packages) results in boot failure.
>> Photo of boot message attached.
> Not pretty useful.

Indeed, nothing to see here. There is one outstanding report in BTS of 
this message being present and causing no harm. It may be entirely 
useless. My initial quick report is fodder for apt-listbugs to protect 
my fellow crash test dummies. The scene is now secure and waiting for 
forensics to arrive.

I will reproduce and try to get better information. There is nothing 
else in the logs; they would be in the VG that allegedly could not be 
found. First stop will be booting without quiet and splash. If I spot 
anything relevant I will report back.

Other system information:
- /boot is plain partition with ext4
- VG (vg) is in a LUKS partition in one LVM PV
- / and /home in

>> Upgrade was:
> Please provide the dpkg log.

Excerpt from /var/log/apt/term.log:

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update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
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update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Syntax: /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke <action> <unit file> [<unit file> ...]
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-17) ...
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update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-1-amd64
Log ended: 2017-11-10  18:00:13

And thanks for your prompt response.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben at transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand