Bug 486903

Summary: Fedora 10 will not boot with an active LVM snapshot of the root volume
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adrian Ponoran <adrian_ponoran>
Component: kernelAssignee: LVM and device-mapper development team <lvm-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: kernel-maint, sukru
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Description Adrian Ponoran 2009-02-23 04:57:58 UTC
Description of problem:

Fedora 10 will not boot with an active LVM snapshot of the root volume. The boot message is:

"mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Device or resource busy"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

# uname -a

2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 11 23:58:12 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

How reproducible:

Just create a snapshot of the root volume and reboot. It doesn't matter if the snapshot was mounted or not. 


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create the snapshot, for example:

# lvcreate  --extents 32 --snapshot --name RootSnapshot /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

2. Reboot/restart the system with the snapshot active

3. It hangs with the above message.
  
Actual results:

System does not boot with message:

"mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Device or resource busy"

Expected results:

The system to boot normally.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adrian Ponoran 2009-02-23 05:00:38 UTC
You can use a rescue/live CD to remove the spanshot (# lvremove ...) and than it boot normally.

Comment 2 Sukru TIKVES 2009-07-26 11:03:32 UTC
Similar thing happened in Fedora 11.

I decided to build a small "rollback" system (as in "Previous Versions" of Windows), so I added automated snapshot creation to /etc/rc.local

Anyways, my second boot failed, because of a corrupted Snapshot volume (which means my 1GB space was not enough).

Expected result is silently ignoring the volume. Since my kernel root parameter is root=/dev/mapper/Laptop-Root not root=/dev/mapper/Laptop-Snapshot!

The "solution" mentioned above is a "non-solution", but a temporary workaround. I could do this kind of snapshots with CentOS, so moving forward in releases should not disable features for no reason.

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 08:00:53 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
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