Bug 790724 - LVM hangs in Creating logical Volume
Summary: LVM hangs in Creating logical Volume
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: 13.1 Milestone 1
Hardware: All SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Critical (vote)
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Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
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Reported: 2012-11-21 13:24 UTC by Bernhard Wiedemann
Modified: 2013-01-14 10:07 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Found By: System Test
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lnussel: SHIP_STOPPER?

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Description Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-11-21 13:24:53 UTC 
as seen on openQA.o.o (e.g. in gnome tests)
http://openqa.opensuse.org/openqa/permanent/bug/lvmcreateb.png

install on LVM hangs indefinitely in Creating logical Volume

last  seen working 2012-11-05
first seen failing 2012-11-06

in between were updates to
dbus, systemd, installation-images, aaa_base, sysconfig
Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2012-11-22 09:37:30 UTC 
With openSUSE-DVD-i586-Build0211-Media.iso from 2012-11-22 the pvcreate
works for me but the lvcreate hangs. Looks like a LVM problem.
Comment 3 Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-12-19 09:26:38 UTC 
current LVM tests still look bad:

http://openqa.opensuse.org/viewimg/openqa/testresults/openSUSE-DVD-i586-Build0266-gnome/start_install-2.png

now has Error -4014
/sbin/lvmcreate -A n -l 1632 --name 'root' 'system':
WARNING: This metadata update is NOT backed up
/dev/system/root: not found: device not cleared
Aborting. Failed to wipe start of new LV.
WARNING: This metadata update is NOT backed up
Comment 4 Markus Koßmann 2013-01-04 15:54:42 UTC 
Looks like I've got the same problem with Build0310.
The problem seems to be caused by a missing /dev/system directory. There are no device nodes for existing LVs any more ( even if lvscan lists them) and new nodes for LVs can't be created. It could be a udev problem ( new udev needs changed rules like BNC 789021)
Comment 5 Ludwig Nussel 2013-01-11 13:54:06 UTC 
I think /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/11-dm-lvm.rules is missing from the installation initrd.
Comment 6 Ludwig Nussel 2013-01-11 14:56:25 UTC 
confirmed, copying that file into inst-sys fixes the problem.

Now I wish there was current documentation on driver update disks :/
Comment 8 Steffen Winterfeldt 2013-01-14 10:07:31 UTC 
added lvm rule