Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Failed to connect to lvmetad

[Mick]

On Friday 24 Jun 2016 23:33:02 Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2016-06-24 15:26 +0000, James wrote:
> > So I do not use 'lvm' on this system. So after adding net-misc/openntpd
> > and setting it up per the wiki, I  got this strange message::
> >
> > #  /etc/init.d/ntpd restart
> >
> >  * Caching service dependencies ...
> >
> > File descriptor 3 (pipe:[25250801]) leaked on lvm invocation. Parent PID
> > 1159: /bin/sh
> >
> >   /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory
> >   WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to internal
> >   scanning.
> >
> >    [ ok ]
> >
> >  * Stopping OpenNTPD ...
> >
> >    [ ok ]
> >
> >  * Starting OpenNTPD ...
> >
> >    [ ok ]
> >
> > Now it is gone.... A transient error as the system syncs to the gentoo
> > time servers?
>
> I was bootstrapping a new system yesterday and I had what may (or may
> not) be a related problem.  "Something" in the boot sequence kept
> starting lvmetad, even though I disabled it in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.  Then
> when it was the turn of the lvm initscript it complained that lvmetad
> was "running but disabled".  Nothing I did along the lines of killing
> the daemon, stopping the lvmetad and lvm scripts in either order,
> etc. seemed to help, it would happen again on next boot.
>
> Then it stopped, I don't really know why, and hasn't happened again.
>
> The lvm scripts seem to be housing some tiny invertebrate creatures.

I am sure I've seen this on at least one of my systems too.  I cannot recall 
what installed it.  Not sure what is the proper way to disable it from 
installing, or from running, but I haven't looked into it recently.
-- 
Regards,
Mick