Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 - 'lvm vgscan' busticated again...

Tejun Heo
2007-06-07T06:45:18Z

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:07:37 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/
>
> This one died a horrid death at boot time - console log indicates it found the
> hard drive OK, found the 2 partitions on it. But when the initrd ran a
> 'lvm vgscan', it didn't find the LVM2 space on /dev/sda2, so it panic'ed when
> it fell off the end of the initrd because the root= wasn't there.
>
> My first guess for blame:
>
> gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch
>
> as that's awfully similar to gregkh-driver-sysfs-fix-i_ino-handling-in-sysfs.patch
> that broke 'lvm vgscan' for me in the same way on 21-rc7-mm[12].
>
> I'll hopefully get a chance to revert that one and test later today - a quick
> 'patch -p1 -R --dry-run' shows a number of conflicts that will need hand-fixing
> at the very least.

Did rc3-mm1 work? Can you find out the first broken -mm?

Thanks.

--
tejun