[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.82-1

Jakob Gruber jakob.gruber at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 15:19:28 EST 2011


On 01/26/2011 04:29 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 26.01.2011 11:38, schrieb Eric Bélanger:
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Jan Spakula<bender02 at archlinux.us>  wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Eric Bélanger's message of Mi Jan 26 05:16:44 +0100 2011:
>>>> lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.82-1 are in testing for minor upstream update.
>>>>   Please test and signoff.  Users signoffs are welcome.
>>> Hi, I have problems with both 2.02.81 and 2.02.82:
>>> I have encrypted root (normal partition) + some extra encrypted partitions on
>>> lvm via crypttab. The ones in crypttab don't unlock, the error message is
>>> something along the lines of "... /dev/vg/swap doesn't exist or access
>>> denied" (it gets overwritten immediately, so I don't see the beginning of the
>>> message). This is right after lvm2 hook is run.
>>> Then a bit later in the emergency shell, the /dev/vg/* links are already
>>> there; so perhaps there's some extra delay until the symlinks are created in
>>> /dev/ with the newer lvm2?
> This is weird. I think lvm2 is supposed to wait for udev to finish
> creating all links before returning. Inserting a 'sleep 1' or
> '/sbin/udevadm settle' in rc.sysinit after the vgchange call should fix
> this, but it shouldn't be necessary.

I'm getting exactly the same behavior, it started ~ a week ago.
Sorry I haven't followed up, been busy with university.


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