Created attachment 814285 [details] sosreport from dracut's failed boot Description of problem: Using Fedora18 Latest packages, dracut produces an initramfs which does not activate the root volume group properly. After a timeout, it starts an emergency shell. I can manually run lvm commands from the emergency shell and exit, which then continues the boot process properly. Just FYI, I am booting Fedora from grub2-efi-2.00-15.fc18.x86_64 on an UEFI system, which has worked fine for a year already. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dracut-029-1.fc18.2.x86_64 How reproducible: Upgrade dracut, re-run mkinitrd, reboot using same kernel and new initramfs Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using dracut-024-18.git20130102.fc18.x86_64 and kernel-3.10.10-100.fc18.x86_64 or kernel-3.10.14-100.fc18.x86_64 or kernel-3.11.4-101.fc18.x86_64, the created initramfs boots fine 2. Using dracut-029-1.fc18.2.x86_64, the newly-created initramfs times out after having reached targes Basic System for all the above kernel versions. The same applies if booting the above kernel as Dom-0 under xen-4.2.3 3. Downgrade dracut back to version 024-18.git20130102.fc18.x86_64 and re-creating the initramfs, all the three kernels boot fine again. Actual results: [ OK ] Show Plymouth Boot Screen. [ OK ] Reached target Paths. [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. (then no output for ~3 minutes) dracut-initqueue[280]: Warning: Could not boot dracut-initqueue[280]: Warning: /dev/mapper/sys-root does not exist dracut-initqueue[280]: Warning: /dev/sys/root does not exist dracut-initqueue[280]: Warning: /dev/sys/swap does not exist dracut-initqueue[280]: Warning: /dev/sys/usr does not exist Starting Setup Virtual Console... [ OK ] Started Setup Virtual Console. Started Dracut Emergency Shell... Warning: /dev/mapper/sys-root does not exist Warning: /dev/sys/root does not exist Warning: /dev/sys/swap does not exist Warning: /dev/sys/usr does not exist Generating /run/initramfs/sosreport.txt Expected results: [ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. Welcome to Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow)! Stopping Switch Root... Expecting device dev-hvc0.device... Mounting RPC Pipe File System... [ OK ] Listening on Syslog Socket. [ OK ] Reached target Remote File Systems. Starting Load legacy module configuration... [ OK ] Listening on Delayed Shutdown Socket. [ OK ] Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe. Starting Setup Virtual Console... Starting Apply Kernel Variables... Starting Load Kernel Modules... Mounting Debug File System... Additional info:
initramfs created by dracut-029-1.fc18.2.x86_64: http://www.waas-frankfurt.de/~reinhard/initramfs-3.10.10-100.fc18.x86_64.bad size 33112325 Bytes md5sum: 913c4a18feb96d1377581be9f5b2683c initramfs created by dracut-024-18.git20130102.fc18.x86_64: http://www.waas-frankfurt.de/~reinhard/initramfs-3.10.10-100.fc18.x86_64.good size 21297507 Bytes md5sum: 74abac11909fdb34feb8d7198bf8375c
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