FC4 error?

Hongwei Li hongwei at wustl.edu
Fri Sep 16 16:44:15 UTC 2005


> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:28 -0500, Hongwei Li wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks!  That makes me easy.  However, I wonder if everybody gets this same
>> error or not.  If yes, then why fc4 release can't fix this issue?  (fc4 is
>> not
>> released recently).  If not, why just me getting this error.  Since I am
>> going
>> to run/install many other packages (I haven't done anything else), I am
>> worried about this problem.  Hope it will not cause any new problem.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Hongwei
>>
>
> Report it as a bug to bugzilla.  IIRC:  The error also occurs in
> rawhide.
>
> Bob...
>
> --

How to report it to bugzilla?  I never used it. Thanks!

Hongwei




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