FC4 error?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Sep 16 16:26:58 UTC 2005


Hongwei Li wrote:
> I updated selinux-policy-targeted from 1.23.16-6 to 1.25.4-10.1, then service
> dovecot can start without error.  However, booting process still shows error:
> 
>  Setting up Logical Volume Management: /var/lock mkdir failed, read-only
>  filesystem
> 
> Setting selinux default as permissive, then reboot, still get the same error. 
> So, this one is not selinux issue. Then, what does it actually mean?  How to
> fix it?  BTW, I reinstalled FC4 twice, the same situation.

I think you may be able to ignore this one. When rc.sysinit is doing 
"Setting up Logical Volume Management", it runs lvm with the 
--ignorelockingfailure option (see "man lvm") because everything is 
initially mounted read-only and locks can't be set. So although the 
error message is generated, booting proceeds as normal.

Paul.




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