Bug#642140: New LVM volumes stop appearing in /dev/ when chromium is running

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

# ebf4127cd677 (kobj_uevent: Ignore if some listeners cannot handle message,
# 2011-08-22), which is in the driver-core tree and hence in linux-next (but
# not in linus's tree yet).
tags 642140 + upstream patch
forwarded 642140 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1180877/focus=1182353
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Hi Enrico,

Enrico Zini wrote:

> After starting chromium:
>   root@viaza:~# lvcreate -L 1G -n foo viaza
>     /dev/mapper/viaza-foo: open failed: No such file or directory
>     /dev/viaza/foo: not found: device not cleared
>     Aborting. Failed to wipe start of new LV.
>     LV viaza/foo in use: not deactivating
>     Unable to deactivate failed new LV. Manual intervention required.
>
> After closing chromium:
>   root@viaza:~# lvcreate -L 1G -n bar viaza
>     Logical volume "bar" created

Weird.  Thanks for reporting it.