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From: Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Warren Togami <wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: initramfs <initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: crypt lvm broke?
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:28:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A24D4A2.5000702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A24AB11.2020702-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

On 06/02/2009 06:31 AM, Warren Togami wrote:
> Somewhere between 4eba843ddeda59d01a074329e28d423d119b8336 and
> e26cb36fcaa9c0e8278d06e806b725ae00e428ad it seems something broke.
>
> /dev/sda1 ext3 /boot
> /dev/sda2 encrypted LVM pv which contains:
> /dev/mapper/vg0-rootfs
> /dev/mapper/vg0-swap
>
> At 4eba843ddeda59d01a074329e28d423d119b8336 it seems to successfully
> unlock the encrypted device, then mount my rootfs lv.
>
> e26cb36fcaa9c0e8278d06e806b725ae00e428ad through
> d0c7d42b3e63c0f62b517b1a5e6c2e58b6b93d2d seem to exhibit the following
> behavior:
>
> * Most of the time: Unlock encryption, mount fails with apparent syntax
> errors rapidly in a loop many times, eventually falling to emergency
> shell. At this point manually mounting /dev/mapper/vg0-rootfs to
> /sysroot then "exit" will boot.
> * Sometimes: Fails to ask crypt password, mount fails with apparent
> syntax errors rapid in a loop, eventually falling to emergency shell.
> dm-crypt module is never loaded.
>
> Any idea what could be going on?
>

This might fix the LVM issues:

http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut;a=commit;h=cff3457e328d172a85f865370822fa3feaee0aa9
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-02  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-02  4:31 crypt lvm broke? Warren Togami
     [not found] ` <4A24AB11.2020702-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-02  7:28   ` Harald Hoyer [this message]
     [not found]     ` <4A24D4A2.5000702-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-02 11:42       ` Victor Lowther

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