Bug#392623: Previously working LVM setup mysteriously broken.

2007-01-31 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006, Loïc Minier wrote: So, if the device-mapper table errors you are seeing in the verbose lilo run are the fatal part and the problem we are trying to solve, the next steps I would see are: - check why running ioctls on dm-* devices fails (is it bad style? should we

Bug#392623: Previously working LVM setup mysteriously broken.

2007-01-31 Thread Loïc Minier
forwarded 401393 [EMAIL PROTECTED] stop Hi, This is a followup for Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/401393. On Thu, Dec 07, 2006, Loïc Minier wrote: - check why running ioctls on dm-* devices fails (is it bad style? should we create /dev/mapper/dm-* devices? why does it fail

Bug#392623: Previously working LVM setup mysteriously broken.

2006-12-08 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006, David Härdeman wrote: Don't mix up boot-on-raid and boot-on-device-mapper, they are two different things using different kernel subsystems (md and dm). Err, md is dm based, right? You mean boot on LVM versus boot on MD? Or did you mean dmraid which is yet something

Bug#401393: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#392623: Previously working LVM setup mysteriously broken.]

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Loïc Minier wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006, Sjoerd Simons wrote: In this case i'd say it's something lilo should work around by preferring /dev/mapper/* devices. That's the workaround I proposed as well, but I'm not using lilo anywhere and don't feel like I'm empowered to do some lilo

Bug#392623: Previously working LVM setup mysteriously broken.

2006-12-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:33:33AM +0100, Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: some trivia first: - Debian's lilo is patched with an unofficial patch for device-mapper support which was not updated since mid 2005 - Debian just hits the problem, but it seems to be a common

Bug#392623: Previously working LVM setup mysteriously broken.

2006-12-06 Thread Harald Staub
I got this error message too. My workaround was to revert this patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392623 NAME= for dm- devices confuses gnome-mount / hal --- udev.rules.02006-11-27 00:22:36.0 +0100 +++ udev.rules 2006-12-05 17:37:33.0 +0100 @@ -97,5

Bug#392623: Previously working LVM setup mysteriously broken.

2006-12-06 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006, Daniel Burrows wrote: My system has a somewhat unusual setup: I'm using lvm on RAID1. Sometime recently, lilo just quit working: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lilo Warning: COMPACT may conflict with LBA32 on some systems device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device

Bug#392623: Previously working LVM setup mysteriously broken.

2006-12-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:16:27PM +0100, Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006, Daniel Burrows wrote: My system has a somewhat unusual setup: I'm using lvm on RAID1. Sometime recently, lilo just quit working: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lilo Warning: