[arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts 2009.11-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.54-2, udev 146-3

[Roman Kyrylych]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 01:54, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> This upload brings some changes to all device-mapper based applications and
> should be the start of fixing some race conditions (also needs a fix to
> devicekit's udev rules).
>
> Let's start with initscripts. There some outstanding issues as always, but
> we should rather release than wait for me to think about all of them:
>
> Aaron Griffin (7):
>      Replace \e with \033 for printfs
>      network: Use real interface name for ifconfig up
>      Always shutdown daemons, regardless of runlevel
>      network: support early 'up' for dhcp interfaces
>      Add hvc0 to inittab (commented by default)
>      Empty mtab instead of deleting it
>      Replace 'truncate file' logic in case of noclobber
>
> Jim Pryor (1):
>      Fix stty/tput usage for columns again
>
> Thomas Bächler (12):
>      Add size and noexec mount options to /dev, change "none" to "udev"
>      Use nosuid instead of noexec on /dev
>      Remove uevent processing benchmark, as it is useless now that we
> actually do work between trigger and settle
>      Remove support for static filesystem and make code in rc.single look
> like the code in rc.sysinit/rc.shutdown
>      Implement a hook-system that allows to add custom code to the
> initscripts at certain places
>      Make the hook-system a bit more usable
>      Only load rtc-cmos if rc.conf has proper clock settings
>      Disable special handling of ACPI modules
>      Remove code to create md* devices manually, this is done by udev these
> days
>      Set STARTUP=1 environment variable on initial udev triggering, required
> by latest device-mapper rules
>      Correct last commit: Unset the STARTUP=1 variable in udevadm control
> only after udev has settled
>      Remove redundant call to vgscan - this also fixes a "wrong" symlink in
> combination with the new udev-based device mapper node creation
>
> First I'd like to highlight the hooks-system. It can be used by splash
> daemons or live systems or any user to hook in special functions during the
> boot process. It is not really documented, there's some comments in
> rc.functions on using it.
>
> For this email, the lvm and udev changes are more important: During the
> initial udevtrigger, the STARTUP=1 environment variable will be set in all
> uevents. This is used by the new device-mapper/lvm2 upstream udev rules
> (which replace our homegrown and outdated rule) which have to distinguish
> between the initial triggering and later execution of uevents.
>
> The device-mapper rules also set some flags that will tell other rules to
> ignore a dm device (these flags have to be respected in devicekit to solve
> some race conditions). The only change in udev is that the I removed a hunk
> from the arch patch that un-ignored dm-* devices: Peristent names for those
> are now handles in the device-mapper rules, respecting the ignore flags and
> thus also avoiding weird races conditions.
>
> If you found this confusing, ask, otherwise please test and sign off.
> (Tested and working on x86_64 with encryption and lvm2)

I hit a weird bug.
When my USB 3G modem is plugged in during boot
I get this error for every encrypted partition except /:
  Command failed: /dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-1345 open filed: No
such file or directory
When the modem is not plugged during boot everything is okay.

Ideas?

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)