Fedora Core 5 Test Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5

[Peter Jones]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:23 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:48:06PM +0200, Roy-Magne Mo wrote:
>  > Dave Jones wrote:
>  > >  Loading dm-snapshot.ko module
>  > > -Making device-mapper control node
>  > > -Scanning logical volumes
>  > > -  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>  > > -  Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>  > > -Activating logical volumes
>  > > -  3 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
>  > >  Trying to resume from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Still seeing this with 2.6.17-1.3001, but I do suspect this is because 
>  > the lvm-utilities is segfaulting during mkinitrd, so the initrd is 
>  > broken - and the kernel itself is ok.
>  > 
>  > I've registered a BZ for it:
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207474
>  > 
>  > Does this sound sane?
> 
> Gaaaagrgh. device-mapper. I hates it. Hate hate hate.
> This may be the reason a number of people were affected by
> this when upgrading from FC4->FC5.  I'll release note this
> in the next kernel update I push.
> 
> Thanks for your investigation into this.

It should be noted that in current mkinitrd we're always using
lvm.static .  This is as of Sep 1, version 5.1.10-1 .
-- 
  Peter