Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm going to try to keep my cool but ya know.  I built me a updated
> kernel, 3.18.9 to be more precise.  A few weeks ago dracut was updated.
> It went to version dracut-041.  Well, it wouldn't build anything.  It
> spit out a bunch of stuff about not finding things that I know is
> installed such as lvm2.  Example below:
>
> === Sat Mar 14 16:58:16 CDT 2015 ===
>
> I: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut -H --force /boot/initramfs-3.18.9-1
> I: dracut module 'bootchart' will not be installed, because command
> '/sbin/bootchartd' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'dash' will not be installed, because command
> '/bin/dash' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'modsign' will not be installed, because command
> 'keyctl' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'network' will not be installed, because command
> 'dhclient' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'plymouth' will not be installed, because command
> 'plymouthd' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'plymouth' will not be installed, because command
> 'plymouth' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'btrfs' will not be installed, because command 'btrfs'
> could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'crypt' will not be installed, because command
> 'cryptsetup' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'dmraid' will not be installed, because command
> 'dmraid' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command
> 'multipath' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'cifs' will not be installed, because command
> 'mount.cifs' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command
> 'dcbtool' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command
> 'fipvlan' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command
> 'lldpad' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command
> 'iscsistart' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command
> 'iscsi-iname' could not be found!
> I: 95nfs: Could not find any command of 'rpcbind portmap'!
> I: dracut module 'biosdevname' will not be installed, because command
> 'biosdevname' could not be found!
> I: dracut module 'masterkey' will not be installed, because command
> 'keyctl' could not be found!
> E: dracut module 'lvm2' cannot be found or installed.
>
>
> Now after all that, it just stops and doesn't build a init thingy.
> Nothing gets added to /boot.  So, I go back to version 034-r4 and it
> works as it should, and has before.  Example:
>
> === Sat Mar 14 18:23:25 CDT 2015 ===
>
> I: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --force /boot/initramfs-3.18.9-1.img
> E: dracut module 'lvm2' cannot be found or installed.
> E: dracut module 'fstab-sys' cannot be found or installed.
> E: dracut module 'lvm2' cannot be found or installed.
> E: dracut module 'fstab-sys' cannot be found or installed.
> I: *** Including module: bash ***
> I: *** Including module: i18n ***
> I: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
> I: *** Including module: resume ***
> I: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
> I: *** Including module: terminfo ***
> I: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
> I: Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
> I: Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
> I: *** Including module: usrmount ***
> I: *** Including module: base ***
> I: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
> I: *** Including module: shutdown ***
> I: *** Including modules done ***
> I: *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware ***
> I: *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done ***
> I: *** Resolving executable dependencies ***
> I: *** Resolving executable dependencies done***
> I: *** Stripping files ***
> I: *** Stripping files done ***
> I: *** Creating image file ***
> I: *** Creating image file done ***
>
>
> That version at least builds the init thingy for me to use.  So,
> question.  Why is the old version working but the new version isn't?
> Why is it not finding lvm2 when I know it is installed because
> everything but /boot and / is on lvm?  Why does it seem like I went
> through this once before?
>

The dracut module for lvm is called 'lvm', not 'lvm2'. Do you have
something like dracutmodules+="lvm2" in dracut.conf?