Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Carlos Sura
On 5 April 2012 15:42, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:59:42 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: I have a similar thing on my ~x86, but the difference is that I know why I get it. I have successfully be able to create an initramfs that does a vgscan, vgchange

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 02:47:41 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: The problem is that it is trying to write to /var/lock, which is on / at this point, rather than /run/lock, which is on a writeable tmpfs. I got this error, and saw a bugfile on Gentoo, just downgrade to your previous working version

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 11:38:40 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 02:47:41 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: The problem is that it is trying to write to /var/lock, which is on / at this point, rather than /run/lock, which is on a writeable tmpfs. I got this

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 Apr 2012 16:28:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 11:38:40 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 02:47:41 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: The problem is that it is trying to write to /var/lock, which is on / at this point, rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:28:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: That bug report also showed the correct solution. There's no need to downgrade, just change the locking_dir location from /var/lock to /run/lock. Not only is this simpler and faster, it means another update can't cause the same

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-05 Thread Dan Johansson
ectrons! *** On Thursday 05 April 2012 00.36:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:58:38 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: I have a similar thing on my ~x86, but the difference is that I know why I get it. I have successfully be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:59:42 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: I have a similar thing on my ~x86, but the difference is that I know why I get it. I have successfully be able to create an initramfs that does a vgscan, vgchange -a y and mounts /usr (which is on LVM). But now I (naturally) I

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:09:26 -0700, walt wrote: This is an ~amd64 machine, up to date as of today. The strange thing is that lvm did *not* fail to start -- it's working perfectly. Now, being an Incorrigible Old Fart(TM) I'm still using openrc, and who knows what evil lurks in that

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-04 Thread covici
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: This is an ~amd64 machine, up to date as of today. The strange thing is that lvm did *not* fail to start -- it's working perfectly. Now, being an Incorrigible Old Fart(TM) I'm still using openrc, and who knows what evil lurks in that paleolithic package? :p

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-04 Thread Dan Johansson
On Tuesday 03 April 2012 18.09:26 walt wrote: This is an ~amd64 machine, up to date as of today. The strange thing is that lvm did *not* fail to start -- it's working perfectly. Now, being an Incorrigible Old Fart(TM) I'm still using openrc, and who knows what evil lurks in that paleolithic

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:58:38 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: I have a similar thing on my ~x86, but the difference is that I know why I get it. I have successfully be able to create an initramfs that does a vgscan, vgchange -a y and mounts /usr (which is on LVM). But now I (naturally) I get LVM

[gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-03 Thread walt
This is an ~amd64 machine, up to date as of today. The strange thing is that lvm did *not* fail to start -- it's working perfectly. Now, being an Incorrigible Old Fart(TM) I'm still using openrc, and who knows what evil lurks in that paleolithic package? :p Anyone else getting this (false)

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-03 Thread Dale
walt wrote: This is an ~amd64 machine, up to date as of today. The strange thing is that lvm did *not* fail to start -- it's working perfectly. Now, being an Incorrigible Old Fart(TM) I'm still using openrc, and who knows what evil lurks in that paleolithic package? :p Anyone else