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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "lvm failed to start"
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:53:39
Message-Id: 4F7BB73E.1010005@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "lvm failed to start" by walt
1 walt wrote:
2 > This is an ~amd64 machine, up to date as of today. The strange thing
3 > is that lvm did *not* fail to start -- it's working perfectly.
4 >
5 > Now, being an Incorrigible Old Fart(TM) I'm still using openrc, and
6 > who knows what evil lurks in that paleolithic package? :p
7 >
8 > Anyone else getting this (false) alarm during boot?
9 >
10 >
11
12 Well, for me its not a false alarm, sort of. Mine fails to start and
13 then works later on or after I restart lvm, sort of iffy here. This is
14 what mine looks like:
15
16 Setting up the Logical Volume Manager . . .
17 File-based locking initialisation failed
18 *Failed to setup the LVM [!!]
19 * Error: lvm failed to start
20
21 After all that, it's downhill sort of. Me, I get that with or without a
22 init thingy. I'm on Gentoo kernel 3.2.11. I'm using lvm2-2.02.95-r1.
23
24 From what I found, it does this because / is mounted ro. It can't write
25 the locking file. I thought those were in /var but . . .
26
27 Also, If I restart lvm after it boots, it starts fine and all the lvm
28 stuff shows up. Maybe this one isn't just me. o_O
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-) :-)
33
34
35 --
36 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
37 how you interpreted my words!
38
39 Miss the compile output? Hint:
40 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"