Bug 837867

--sysinit is supposed to cover whatever locking needs we have.

Do you have a /var/lock/lvm? What is your filesystem layout?

Yes, but that directory is empty:

[root@ti86 ~]# ls -al /var/lock/lvm
total 0
drwx------ 2 root root  40 Jul  5 08:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 160 Jul  5 03:14 ..

[root@ti86 ~]# df -lh
Filesystem                    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                        1.2G  952M  140M  88% /
devtmpfs                      1.5G  8.0K  1.5G   1% /dev
tmpfs                         1.5G   96K  1.5G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg_os-f16_root    1.2G  952M  140M  88% /
tmpfs                         1.5G   49M  1.5G   4% /run
tmpfs                         1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                         1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /media
/tmp                          1.5G  5.4M  1.5G   1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg_os-extra_disk   23G  749M   23G   4% /extra_disk
/dev/mapper/vg_os-f16_var     1.7G  665M  913M  43% /var
tmpfs                         1.5G   49M  1.5G   4% /var/run
/dev/md11                     463M  339M  101M  78% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_os-f16_usr      20G  8.7G   11G  46% /usr

[root@ti86 ~]# lvs
  LV         VG    Attr   LSize  Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%  Convert
  extra_disk vg_os -wi-ao 23.00g                                      
  f16_root   vg_os -wi-ao  1.12g                                      
  f16_usr    vg_os -wi-ao 20.00g                                      
  f16_var    vg_os -wi-ao  1.62g                                      

[root@ti86 ~]# vgs
  VG    #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize  VFree 
  vg_os   1   4   0 wz--n- 68.00g 22.25g
[root@ti86 ~]# pvs
  PV         VG    Fmt  Attr PSize  PFree 
  /dev/md13  vg_os lvm2 a--  68.00g 22.25g

[root@ti86 ~]# cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [raid1] 
md13 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
      71369216 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      
md11 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
      488384 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      
md12 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
      6291392 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      
unused devices: <none>


As I mentioned, this is inconsistent.  Sometimes it succeeds, but it seems to fail most of the time.  I guess there's a race condition somewhere.

Please, try setting log/file="/var/run/lvm2.log" and log/level=7 in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf and try to reboot. We should have the log then, including the lvm commands called on boot. If you manage to get the log while the problem occurs, please attach the log here for further analysis. Thanks.

Created attachment 598677 [details]
LVM2 log file showing failure of fedora-storage-init.service

As requested, here is the log file.  I hope this helps.

Regards,
Andy

Hi,

I see the same problem

[   11.446764] fedora-storage-init[1274]: Setting up Logical Volume Management:   /var/lock/lvm/V_VolGroup02:aux: open failed: No such file or directory
[   11.446893] fedora-storage-init[1274]: Can't get lock for VolGroup02
[   11.446984] fedora-storage-init[1274]: /var/lock/lvm/V_VolGroup01:aux: open failed: No such file or directory
[   11.447103] fedora-storage-init[1274]: Can't get lock for VolGroup01
[   11.447188] fedora-storage-init[1274]: /var/lock/lvm/V_VolGroup00:aux: open failed: No such file or directory
[   11.447307] fedora-storage-init[1274]: Can't get lock for VolGroup00
[   11.494643] fedora-storage-init[1274]: [FAILED]
[   11.494940] systemd[1]: fedora-storage-init-late.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=5
[   11.507823] systemd[1]: Unit fedora-storage-init-late.service entered failed state.
[   11.740382] lvm[1417]: 1 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup02" monitored
[   11.742503] lvm[1417]: 10 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup01" monitored
[   11.744261] lvm[1417]: 9 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" monitored

But all seems to work ok

Regards
Kjell

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