Re: [CentOS] a peculiar LVM failure on CentOS 6 run as a VMware 5.5 guest

2015-08-27 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello Leonard, Thank you very much for your response. While it most likely is related the problem description provided at the link seems a bit vague, and tips on how to resolve the issue seem to be even more so. I have done some research and in the process stumbled upon this:

Re: [CentOS] a peculiar LVM failure on CentOS 6 run as a VMware 5.5 guest

2015-08-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Boris, On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 15:59 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: We have a Centos 6 VM (64 bit) running on a VMware vSphere 5.5 server. It was running just fine until one day I decided to reboot it and it just would not boot up. Effectively, dracut failed to initialize the LVM, much like

Re: [CentOS] a peculiar LVM failure on CentOS 6 run as a VMware 5.5 guest

2015-08-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello again, Not sure I have this down 100% but it appears that the main LVM config file ( /etc/lvm/lvm.conf ) has been changed on August 13, 2015 on a number of machines we have - all of them configured for automatic yum updates. So I presume that could be a change that came as part an update -

[CentOS] a peculiar LVM failure on CentOS 6 run as a VMware 5.5 guest

2015-08-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I have encountered a rather peculiar situation. We have a Centos 6 VM (64 bit) running on a VMware vSphere 5.5 server. It was running just fine until one day I decided to reboot it and it just would not boot up. Effectively, dracut failed to initialize the LVM, much like under