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Bug#797955: initramfs-tools: initramfs fails to activate swap on encrypted LVM2 partition; fails boot



Control: severity -1 important
Control: reassign -1 lvm2

On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 23:30 +0200, Arnaud Installe wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.120
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> All my partitions (except /boot) are on encrypted LVM2 partitions.
> 
> When booting, initramfs asks for the passwords to unlock the /root & /usr
> partitions, which are mounted successfully. It then fails to ask for the swap
> partition password, instead looping a few minutes, posting messages that it is
> waiting for all volumes to become available and "/run/lvm/lvmetad.socket:
> connect failed". Disabling lvmetad did not help.
[...]

The initramfs has never been responsible for setting up the swap
partition.

It sounds like the fault is with lvm2 though it could be cryptsetup.

Reducing severity because this is not a normal configuration and you
have a workaround for it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Q.  Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy?
A.  I don't know and I couldn't care less.

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