On Monday 01 February 2010 15:47:07 Hanno Böck wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I faced a problem when trying to switch to baselayout2/openrc on > a machine with lvm and raid. > > The scenario: Server has software raid with mdadm and lvm2 and is currently > mostly stable amd64. Root partition is on md1 and most other partitions > (also /usr, that might matter) on some lvm partitions. > > I added baselayout, openrc and sysvinit to package.keywords (later also > tried with additionally adding lvm2, udev and mdadm, but that didn't > change things) and followed the migration guide at > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml > > > The system failed on boot. I think that the problem is that for some > reason, udev isn't starting correctly. It is in the sysinit runlevel. > The interesting part is probably > * Populating /dev with ex/bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot > change locale (de_DE.utf-8) > * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ... > Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. > Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access > method. * Failed to set the system clock > [ !! ] > > I get a lot of more failures, raid and lvm isn't starting with errors. The > LC_ALL-warnings are polluting everything, but that shouldn't be an issue > (?). > > Any hints on what might be wrong?
You have supplied a fair number of errors that are not related to the problem. Please post the errors that ARE related. Such as any lvm2, dm and mounting- root-filesystem errors -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
