F23 dracut can't find disk
I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in
February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. Today,
booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut says it
can't find the disk filesystems. The kernel boots as it should, and of
course that comes from the disk, but then dracut comes along and says it
can't find any of the filesystems. Not the root or home filesystems
which are on LVM or the boot filesystem on a primary disk partition.
Everything on the disk is ok. I've checked by booting Anaconda from a
thumb drive and mounting manually. Anaconda troubleshooting mode says it
can't find the filesystems either ("you have no Linux partitions"), but
running vgchange -ay and a few mounts gets a proper chroot image.
There must be something that is causing both dracut and Anaconda to fail
to find the filesystems. I've tried following the instructions on
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Dracut_problems>;, but that
isn't helping:
dracut:/# parted /dev/sda -s p
sh: parted: command not found
dracut:/# lvm vgscan
File descriptor 98 (/dev/console) leaked on lvm invocation. Parent PID
2679: sh
File descriptor 99 (/dev/console) leaked on lvm invocation. Parent PID
2679: sh
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
dracut:/# lvm vgchange -ay
File descriptor 98 (/dev/console) leaked on lvm invocation. Parent PID
2679: sh
File descriptor 99 (/dev/console) leaked on lvm invocation. Parent PID
2679: sh
dracut:/# blkid
dracut:/#
Note that when booted from the thumb drive, vgchange finds the LVM
volumes just fine.
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Dave Close