Re: LVM Boot fail
On 2/16/20 05:36, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:57:36PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote:
>> Neither the host nor the guest VM is rebooted often, and it is not a
>> particularly serious problem now that it's known, but it would be better
>> gone. I'm not averse to doing work to sort this out, but would be
>> grateful for pointers to relevant documentation or other information, or
>> suggestions for fixing it. and wouldn't object to information about
>> fixing it, if anyone has encountered it previously.
>
> What a typical Debian initramfs does with LVM is defined at
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/lvm2, and specifically
> it's:
>
> lvm lvchange -aay -y --sysinit --ignoreskippedcluster "$@"
>
> Note the '-aay' part here, it refers to auto_activation_volume_list in
> lvm.conf.
> What it should do is to activate all and every LV you have if
> auto_activation_volume_list is not defined, and restrict LV activation
> to the list contents otherwise.
>
> So, first things first, check your lvm.conf.
Thanks, Reco; I think this set me on a path to a fix, although so far
everything in my setup is as you described.
Tom
>
>
> Second, you can cheat. Just add yet another initramfs script to call
> "lvchange -ay".
>
> Reco
>
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