Dear all,
Today I installed among other fixes 2.02.98-0.28.14.1 for LVM2. I did this with zypper. The installation went well but I had to reboot the system because several modules where in use (zypper ps). When I rebooted the system did not come up any more. I have a lot of lvm2 volumes on my system.
I analyzed the problem, here are my findings:
1.) The fix changes the file /etc/lvm/lvm.conf. There in the “global” section the use_lvmetad parameter is set to 1. I don’t know why but during restart the volume groups are not becoming active any more. Changing the parameter back to 0 allows again normal boot.
2.) On my system, fstab mounts the volume groups, however I didn’t had the nofail option specified. Since the vgs did not become available, the boot process put the system in emergency mode. There is the recommendation to use journalctl -b to analyse the problem after login. However it is impossible to login as there is NO login prompt.
The system renders in unusable state.
I needed to create a live system and then change the fstab to add nofail to the mount parameters in order to resolve this situation.
My questions are
- why will there be no login prompt at the login prompt.
- why the volume groups are getting not active after applying this fix.
Thank you very much in advance.
Kind regards,
Florian