From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FfhkP-0006kM-V0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 18:24:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4FIMETX030066; Mon, 15 May 2006 18:22:14 GMT Received: from dingo.dogpad.net (ppp-70-251-132-112.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [70.251.132.112]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4FIMCku003537 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 18:22:13 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.dogpad.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90DE4C2B6 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 13:22:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4468C6D3.8020007@dogpad.net> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 13:22:11 -0500 From: Joe Harvell User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060429) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-admin@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-admin@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-admin@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-admin] LVM install fails to boot in 2006.0 with no-nptl/2.4 profile References: <4468B119.6040309@dogpad.net> <4468BA29.4020601@voidzero.net> In-Reply-To: <4468BA29.4020601@voidzero.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7d8639b1-9d79-4d21-8dd1-bb49201cc51b X-Archives-Hash: e3af11a40c1c3299fb949c31f6a7369c Mark wrote: >Cross posting is not very polite. How should we, on this list, know if >someone has helped you yet? > > By looking on the other groups it was posted to. >This is the same as being in a grocery store, when a new counter row is >opened and a big lady bumps everyone aside just to be the first one in >the row. How rude. > > It's not even close to being the same thing. If you don't want to reply to a question on the basis that it is cross-posted, feel free not to reply. >Mark > >Joe Harvell wrote: > > >>I am in the process of installing Gentoo on an x86 from the 2006.0 >>installer CD using the 2.4 kernel profile. I created an LVM2 volume >>group with logical volumes / filesystems for '/', '/usr', '/var', >>'/opt', and '/home'. I had no problems mounting those filesystems and >>then chrooting into that environment and performing the base install. >>I compiled the 2.4.32-r4 kernel from gentoo-sources with no problems, >>and created the initial ram disk by hand so that I could bring up the >>LVM2 volumes. >> >>The problem I am having is when I boot into the initrd. I run vgscan >>with no apparent problems, and it finds the volume group. When I run >>'vgchange -ay , I notice three problems: >> >>1. There are entries in /dev/mapper/-, but no >>symlinks in the form /dev// --> >>/dev/mapper//. I run 'lvm vgmknodes' and it remedies >>this. >> >>2. I see five complaints from 'vgchange -ay ' (one for each >>LV) as follows: >> >>on stderr: device-mapper: table ioctl failed: Invalid argument >>on console (from dm-mod driver): device-mapper: one of name or uuid >>must be supplied, cmd (12) >> >>I ran vgchange under strace and here is the following snippet: >> >>open("/dev/mapper/control", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 9 >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE) = 0 >>brk(0x8936000) = 0x8936000 >>brk(0x8b1e000) = 0x8b1e000 >>getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0) = 20 >>setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -18) = 0 >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or >>address) >>stat64("/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10", >>{st_mode=S_IFBLK|0600, st_rdev=makedev(3, 10), ...}) = 0 >>stat64("/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11", >>{st_mode=S_IFBLK|0600, st_rdev=makedev(3, 11), ...}) = 0 >>stat64("/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12", >>{st_mode=S_IFBLK|0600, st_rdev=makedev(3, 12), ...}) = 0 >>ioctl(9, DM_DEV_CREATE, 0x8109958) = 0 >>ioctl(9, DM_TABLE_STATUS, 0x8109958) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) >>write(2, " ", 2) = 2 >>write(2, "device-mapper: table ioctl faile"..., 51) = 51 >>write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 >> >>3. When I try to mount the filesystem in that LV, it fails. I tried >>with different filesystem types and it's the same result. From within >>the 2.4 kernel based initrd, it fails. If I reboot into the 2.6 >>kernel based installer environment, no problem. >> >>This looks like an incompatibility between the lvm2 and/or >>device-mapper library code and the kernel device-mapper code. Here >>are the versions installed in the new installation and its initrd: >> >>lvm2-2.02.05 >>device-mapper-1.02.03 >>gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r4 >> >>livecd 2.4 # ls -l /etc/make.profile >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 May 11 18:09 /etc/make.profile -> >>/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4 >> >> >> -- gentoo-admin@gentoo.org mailing list