Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

[Alex Thorne <lexiconifernelius@gmail.com>]

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Unfortunately dmraid is not in any runlevel. I think it is lvm that's
starting lvmetad despite use_lvmetad=0 being set in the configuration file.
Unfortunately I think I'm just going to have to learn to live with the
error message.

Thanks,
Alex

On 25 June 2015 at 10:19, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 12:13:06 Alex Thorne wrote:
>
> > I used to get the following error in /var/log/rc.log
> >     /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory
> > I am not sure why this was happening, but I read that one fix was to
> > disable lvmetad entirely. And so I set
> >    use_lvmetad = 0
> > in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.
> >
> > However, now I get error messages of the following form (e.g. when
> running
> > grub2-mkconfig):
> >   WARNING: lvmetad is runing but disabled. Restart lvmetad before
> enabling
> > it!
>
> I don't have an rc.log but I used to see this scroll by during boot and
> shutdown. The cure seems to be to remove mdraid from the boot run-level
> [1].
>
> I don't properly understand what's going on here: I needed mdraid in boot
> while building the system, but once it was up and running and udev was
> starting the RAID volumes it was better to remove it. I still have
> use_lvmetad
> = 1. Bug 521280 refers.
>
> > I ran
> >    /etc/init.d/lvmetad needsme
> > and got
> >    lvm-monitor lvm
> > I don't understand why lvm is starting lvmetad even when I have disabled
> > it. lvmetad is certainly not in any runlevel itself and I just don't know
> > where to go from here.
> >
> > I would appreciate some advice on how to fix either problem (the socket
> > connect issue when lvmetad is enabled, or the fact that lvmetad still
> > starts when it's disabled...)
>
> [1]     ...and have a rescue system ready to chroot from and put it back
> :-)
>
> --
> Rgds
> Peter
>
>
>

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