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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:24:50
Message-Id: CADPrc832LpuS_zCdWithzagX4K9ZkGNwzmBJs-VnD75qWedUhA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? by Dale
1 On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:05:27 -0500, Dale wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> It's a bug.  Roach report here:
6 >>>
7 >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409921
8 >>>
9 >>> Going back a version and then reboot.
10 >>
11 >> No need for that, just change locking_dir in lvm.conf to somewhere
12 >> writeable, as mentioned in the bug report - comment 6.
13 >>
14 >>
15 >
16 >
17 > Well, I didn't want to mess with the config much since I may make it
18 > worse.  So, I built a new kernel 3.3.0 and built a new init do hicky.
19 > Now, it seems to work.  It boots with no errors and everything mounts.
20 > I also downgraded to lvm2-2.02.88 which works.  A newer version may work
21 > but that is what I went back to.  It was the last one that I knew worked.
22 >
23 > So, I took my med and I'm off to bed.  Hmmm.  I'm a poet and didn't know
24 > it.  :-p
25 >
26 > I'll test some more tomorrow.
27
28 It seems the problem it's in LVM, or (more appropriately) in the
29 failure to create the /run tmpfs:
30
31 # mount | grep /run
32 tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
33 tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
34
35 It seems other problems (like 张春江's one with plymouth) have the same
36 reason. With systemd the /run tmpfsgets created, so maybe now that
37 systemd and udev are being merged this problem will go away.
38
39 For now, I think we can (finally) call this case closed; Dale, I would
40 strongly recommend the workaround (editing the config file) instead of
41 downgrading. Eventually you will need the new version anyhow.
42
43 Glad to hear it works, albeit with some issues (unrelated to the initramfs).
44
45 Regards.
46 --
47 Canek Peláez Valdés
48 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
49 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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