From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Getting following message at boot time: "Setting up Logical Volume Management: /var/lock: mkdir failed: Read- only filesystem." Reason is probably that /var is a separate partition which is "read only" at boot time. Therefore no lock can be held until the partition is set to "read/write" mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a Fedora Core 4 system with /var as separate partition 2. Boot the system 3. Actual Results: Following message is displayed: "Setting up Logical Volume Management: /var/lock: mkdir failed: Read- only filesystem." Expected Results: No error message. Additional info: Since FC3 does not have this bug, maybe then the FC3 method of serialising the process should be retrofitted into FC4.
Dmraid must be called with --ignorelocking in initscripts, see bug 168195.