lvm not creating the "special files" in /dev after update

WiLLiE · 2007-03-25 06:18:17

After installing the quite massive amounts of updates, I rebooted.
I could not log in, since my /home wasn't mounted because vlm had'nt created the special files needed for volume group devices in /dev.

Manually running

sudo lvm vgmknodes

creates them and /home is mountable again.

btw, still on 2.6.19-beyond. (atleast for a while longer)

Whats the problem, and is there a temporary fix for this? (eg. creating them manually from rc.local with the above command)

enrique · 2007-03-25 12:05:25

Sry this is just a "me to" post

If you find a solution, please post it, I will do the same.

P.s. I have /usr /var /home /opt on lvm

enrique · 2007-03-25 13:09:31

Hm, no succes so far. Chrooted in and downgraded lvm and coreutil packages, but that did not make any difference.

I was able to log in as root and do a lvm vgmknodes as suggested, but that also did not difference.

tpowa · 2007-03-25 13:17:23

me is working on a fix atm with a guy from irc

enrique · 2007-03-25 13:40:07

Ok, cool, any idea if the problem is caused by coreutils or a bug in lvm? mayby lvm should have been statically linked with some lib and it is not?

WiLLiE · 2007-03-25 17:05:43

tpowa wrote:

me is working on a fix atm with a guy from irc

Sounds great. Let us now if you guys come up with somehing.

Skwisgaar · 2007-03-25 20:28:33

Same here after an update this morning, but vgmknodes worked for me.

However the problem does not seem to be limited to LVM, because now I can't mount my TrueCrypt drives (which also use the device mapper):

# truecrypt secret.tc /crypt
Enter password for 'secret.tc':
mount: special device /dev/mapper/truecrypt0 does not exist
truecrypt: Mount failed

tomk · 2007-03-25 20:52:58

Update your system to get the latest versions of device-mapper, udev, and klibc-udev, released today. They include tpowa's fix.

Skwisgaar · 2007-03-25 21:08:21

That solved the problem. Thanks tomk!

enrique · 2007-03-26 07:57:05

That sounds nice, I will do it as soon as I get home from work. Thanks for the quick fix!

WiLLiE · 2007-03-26 09:26:17

Same here, will do when I get home from work. Thanks, that was fast

sven · 2007-03-26 11:15:11

I had the same problem with my device mapper partitions - and the latest update fixed it. Thanks!

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lvm not creating the "special files" in /dev after update

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