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btw0

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Registered: 2006-06-25

Posts: 9

udev doesn't make LVM device nodes on boot

I have recently upgraded (``pacman -Syu'' ) my netbook. It's a massive upgrade since I hadn't done that for a while. After reboot however, fsck.ext4 complained it could't resolve the disk label since my root partition is on a LVM logical partition, it turned out udev failed to make appropriate devices nodes for LVM logical partitions.

In rescue mode, running ```vgmknodes && mount -a'' will have everything back again, but that's not a solution in the long run.

SIFTU

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Registered: 2011-09-11

Posts: 4

Re: udev doesn't make LVM device nodes on boot

I had the same problem with my laptop running LVM & LUKS. As I update often so I found the offending package was the new version of sysvinit. sysvinit-2.88-2 seems to work for me.

jakobm

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Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 132

Re: udev doesn't make LVM device nodes on boot

As I update often so I found the offending package was the new version of sysvinit.

Can you check this again please? I do not see how the relevant change can cause that.

SIFTU

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Registered: 2011-09-11

Posts: 4

Re: udev doesn't make LVM device nodes on boot

jakobm, maybe its something with my setup but I tried again with the new sysvinit and confirmed it broke my boot. Like the first poster my volume group is not even a device in /dev. I get the message

/etc/rc.sysinit: line 15: mountpoint: command not found

SIFTU

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Registered: 2011-09-11

Posts: 4

Re: udev doesn't make LVM device nodes on boot

well apparently its some known bug in pacman.. performing a "sudo pacman -S sysvinit; sudo pacman -S util-linux" fixed the problem of the missing mountpoint command

btw0

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Registered: 2006-06-25

Posts: 9

Re: udev doesn't make LVM device nodes on boot

well apparently its some known bug in pacman.. performing a "sudo pacman -S sysvinit; sudo pacman -S util-linux" fixed the problem of the missing mountpoint command

That solved my problem too, thanks!

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: udev doesn't make LVM device nodes on boot

Tip:  change the subject line of the first post to SOLVED for others to find later in their searches.  That or you risk the wrath of some random admin.