Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 15:46 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 08/04/13 13:53, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On 08-04-13 08:53, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> I'm not suggesting that squeeze systems were installed that way by > >> default, although people who have migrated an FS from a raw partition > >> to

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 17:15 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > So it seems that this is only going to be an issue if users take the > unusual step of changing /etc/fstab to refer to LVs by UUID. But > maybe there are management tools that do that as a matter of course? I vaguely recall the occasio

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-08 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 08/04/13 13:53, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 08-04-13 08:53, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> I'm not suggesting that squeeze systems were installed that way by >> default, although people who have migrated an FS from a raw partition >> to an LV may have this in fstab. > And that fact alone makes it a non

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 08-04-13 08:53, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I'm not suggesting that squeeze systems were installed that way by > default, although people who have migrated an FS from a raw partition > to an LV may have this in fstab. And that fact alone makes it a non-RC bug -- if it's even a bug at all. Changing

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/07/2013 10:46 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > The only reason to escalate the issue to > debian-devel is because you're trying to overrule the maintainers. Once more, I'd say... :/ Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/04/13 18:15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 16:19 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> On 07/04/13 15:47, Neil Williams wrote: >>> On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:25:43 +0200 Daniel Pocock >>> wrote: >>> I notice this bug was downgrade

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013, Ben Hutchings wrote: > So it seems that this is only going to be an issue if users take the > unusual step of changing /etc/fstab to refer to LVs by UUID. But maybe > there are management tools that do that as a matter of course? One should never use UUIDs in fstab to refer t

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 04:01:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > UUIDs are used by default AFAICS when the installer creates the > fstab, and should work just fine. Just looking and I don't have > an example system which uses UUIDs /and/ LVM root, however--this > does not appear to be the default f

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 16:19 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 07/04/13 15:47, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:25:43 +0200 Daniel Pocock > > wrote: > > > >> I notice this bug was downgraded below the RC threshold and > >> appears to have been missed so far: > > > > It was only push

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Roger Leigh (07/04/2013): > UUIDs are used by default AFAICS when the installer creates the > fstab, and should work just fine. Just looking and I don't have > an example system which uses UUIDs /and/ LVM root, however--this > does not appear to be the default for LVM. While this is an > importa

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 04:19:15PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 07/04/13 15:47, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:25:43 +0200 Daniel Pocock > > wrote: > > > >> I notice this bug was downgraded below the RC threshold and > >>

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:19:15 +0200 Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 07/04/13 15:47, Neil Williams wrote: > > It was only pushed to RC status by your request and then almost > > immediately moved back to original severity of Important by one of > > the maintainers. > > > > It is up to the maintainers t

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/07/2013 10:19 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 07/04/13 15:47, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:25:43 +0200 Daniel Pocock wrote: I notice this bug was downgraded below the RC threshold and appears to have been missed so far: It was only pushed to RC status by your request and

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/04/13 15:47, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:25:43 +0200 Daniel Pocock > wrote: > >> I notice this bug was downgraded below the RC threshold and >> appears to have been missed so far: > > It was only pushed to RC status by your

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:25:43 +0200 Daniel Pocock wrote: > I notice this bug was downgraded below the RC threshold and appears to > have been missed so far: It was only pushed to RC status by your request and then almost immediately moved back to original severity of Important by one of the maint

upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-07 Thread Daniel Pocock
I notice this bug was downgraded below the RC threshold and appears to have been missed so far: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612402 Basically, if somebody has UUID syntax in /etc/fstab, their root FS isn't mounted and they can't boot Patches are included, should this be bum