Bug 12076

Summary:	lvm2 causes boot errors with kernel-desktop-latest
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Joseph Wang <joequant>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	nic
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Joseph Wang 2013-12-22 05:42:57 CET

Description of problem:

This is an interaction issue between lvm2, dracut and possibly kernel-desktop-latest.  When I have the lvm2 rpm installed but not activated, and then I install a kernel-desktop-latest rpm, the resulting dracut will not boot and gives me an error that says

/dev/lvm-host-only not found

It appears that with lvm2 installed, dracut will include the lvm modules but if lvm has not been activated the boot will fail.

The workaround is not too bad once you know what is going on, but it took me several weeks to figure out what was going on.  Marking as critical since it leaves Mageia in an unbootable state.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

This started happening in late Novemeber 2013

How reproducible:

Consistent

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On a machine without lvm2 active install the
2. Install a kernel-desktop-latest rpm
3. Reboot
4. Watch it fail
5. To make this work, you have to uninstall lvm2 and then regenerate the initrd


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2014-01-01 22:22:14 CET

Tested with kernel-tmb-desktop and kernel-desktop586 it worked.

Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0

Comment 2 Nic Baxter 2015-12-22 03:40:04 CET

This is very old. I cannot reproduce in Mageia 5 with lvm2-2.02.111-6.mga5 and kernel-desktop-devel-4.1.13-2.mga5-1-1.mga5.

Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => nic
Resolution: (none) => OLD
Assignee: bugsquad => qa-bugs