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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