Re: Recent sid problems - proompting for removal of lvm/dmsetup/cryptsetup
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 16:33:15 +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
>
> For the past few days my sid system (AMD64) has been trying
> to remove LVM, cryptsetup, and dmsetup.
>
> Given that my system is based upon LVM and I have several
> encrypted volumes I've not yet accepted these decisions.
[...]
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> The following packages will be REMOVED
> cryptsetup dmsetup epiphany-browser epiphany-extensions libseed0 libslab0 lvm2
> The following NEW packages will be installed
> devicekit-disks devicekit-power hdparm libatasmart4 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-0.10-0 libdevkit-power-gobject1 libgnomekbd4 libmpcdec6 libslab0a libx264-78
I think the upgrade of devicekit-disks is the to blame, see bugs
#550434, #550668, #550937, #551563.
The core of the problem seems to be #545032.
> So .. am I missing something obvious? Is there a bogus conflict here which is
> messing me about? Or horror of horror - Am I crazy and is removing LVM the
> correct thing to do these days?
>
> Please bear in mind my root filesystem, amongst others, are LVM-mounts:
>
> /dev/mapper/gold--vol-root on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro)
I would forbid upgrades of devicekit-disks until the maintainers have
figured this one out.
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Regards, |
Florian |
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