On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:09:26 -0700, walt wrote:

> This is an ~amd64 machine, up to date as of today.  The strange thing
> is that lvm did *not* fail to start -- it's working perfectly.
> 
> Now, being an Incorrigible Old Fart(TM) I'm still using openrc, and
> who knows what evil lurks in that paleolithic package?  :p
> 
> Anyone else getting this (false) alarm during boot?

It is not really a false alarm, LVM does fail here but tries again later
on and succeeds. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409921 covers it
and the workaround in comment 2 does it for me.

Basically, LVM is trying to write its lockfile to a readonly filesystem.
I'm going to try mounting /run on tmpfs in my initramfs as that is where
it is mounted now, but apparently too late for the first attempt at
starting LVM.


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Neil Bothwick

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