Public bug reported:
I've ran update manager today and it updated the kernel and devmapper
among other packages. Now when the system starts, it fails during boot
and requests the root password to go into maintenance mode. When I type
in the password of the first user with admin privileges (it doesn't
accept the password of any other user) the system goes into the bash
command line and generate a few additional error message about missing
packages (not important).
The main problem is that the files under /dev/mapper in the format of
<volgroup>-<logical volume> are not block devices, but instead are symbolic
links to themselves:
# ls -l /dev/mapper/system-*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-09-25 13:18 system-root -> system-root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-09-25 13:18 system-home -> system-home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-09-25 13:18 system-swap -> system-swap
mount of course fails and so does fsck, hence the maintenance mode.
The interesting thing is that apparently the root partition is mounted,
even though it has the same symbolic link issue in the /dev/mapper
directory. No other partitions can be mounted though.
** Affects: devmapper (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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After today's update to devmapper, system does not boot successfully
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144735
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