Bug 813798

Summary:	LVM on LUKS stopped recognizing LVM physical volume
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Oleg <infobox.oleg>
Component:	lvm2	Assignee:	LVM and device-mapper development team <lvm-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	agk, bmarzins, bmr, dwysocha, gmazyland, heinzm, jonathan, lvm-team, msnitzer, prajnoha, prockai, zkabelac
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Description Oleg 2012-04-18 13:01:04 UTC

Description of problem:
I have an encrypted setup with LVM on LUKS created by Fedora:
- one physical partition
- encrypted using LUKS
- inside LUKS container is LVM physical volume spanning across whole container
- inside LVM there are partitions /(root), /home/, /swap

After failed hibernation attempt system stopped booting:
- system starts and asks for password
- opens LUKS volume
- LVM fails to detect, that contents of LUKS volume are actually LVM, so it does not create device for root partition etc. - boot drops to dracut console

If I use less and examine contents of /dev/mapper/LUKS_...., at the beginning I see plain text LVM configuration in several versions with similiar date and time - steps made by Fedora installer in order to create root, home etc. partitions.

This failure is fatal for my end user and even for me. I will attempt repair using "pvcreate --restore" after I image the disk, but possibility of such failure is critical.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora kernel 3.1.9

How reproducible:
Don't know, how I got there. But failure repeats every time I boot.

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