Bug#877378: lvm2: upgrade fails on stretch

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.168-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

lvm2 lets apt-get install fail:

# sudo apt-get install 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up lvm2 (2.02.168-2) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Failed to restart lvm2-lvmetad.service: Unit lvm2-lvmetad.socket is masked.
invoke-rc.d: initscript lvm2-lvmetad, action "restart" failed.
● lvm2-lvmetad.service - LVM2 metadata daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lvm2-lvmetad.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-08-15 23:18:51 CEST; 1 months 15 days ago
     Docs: man:lvmetad(8)
 Main PID: 239 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Best regards

Heinrich Schuchardt

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  dmeventd                  2:1.02.137-2
ii  dmsetup                   2:1.02.137-2
ii  init-system-helpers       1.48
ii  libblkid1                 2.29.2-1
ii  libc6                     2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libdevmapper-event1.02.1  2:1.02.137-2
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.137-2
ii  liblvm2app2.2             2.02.168-2
ii  libreadline5              5.2+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libudev1                  232-25+deb9u1
ii  lsb-base                  9.20161125

lvm2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lvm2 suggests:
pn  thin-provisioning-tools  <none>

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