Bug#399387: lvm2: fails to load libncurses at boot when root under lvm

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

severity 399387 important
stop

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 04:48:59PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> severity 399387 critical
> thanks

no, it has only shown up until now on 1 box,
we have no other report that root on lvm does not work.
this very likely local breakage.
 
> Le dimanche 19 novembre 2006 16:13, vous avez écrit :
> > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:18:00PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> > > Every upgrade that recreates my initramfs leads to a full failure of the
> > > next boot.
> >
> > initramfs-tools is currently responsible to create the initramfs. Also I
> > can't reproduce this on my own machines.
> 
> Ok.
> But since you are the maintainer for that application and that applications 
> fails, you should at least have an eye on this bug.

you don't provide any info to look at,
so i'll ask you for several output:
cat /etc/fstab
cat /proc/cmdline
lsmod
ldd /sbin/vgchange 
sh -x mkinitramfs -o /tmp/test.initramfs
 
> > > Failure is because my root is under lvm, and the kernel fails to load
> > > the volumes at boot and issue a log like:
> > > vgchange: cannot locate libncurses.xxx
> >
> > So the lib is missing, why?
> 
> Well if I knew I would have tell it here.


aboves should give enough infos, what's going wrong.
 
> > It correctly depends on libncurses5.
> 
> So what?

so it should also be on the initramfs as it is installed.
doublechecked it gets included.

-- 
maks