Comment 24 for bug 452350

Still appearing on 12.04.2 for me.

On 27 Aug, 2013, at 20:32 , Kenneth Wrede <email address hidden> wrote:

> This bug is solved for me. It dissapeard with an update.
>
> Does someone still have problems?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452350
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> Title:
> Unknown LVM metadata header
>
> Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “grub2” package in Debian:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: grub2
>
> update-grub2 appears to run successfully, but generates a lot of
> "error: Unknown LVM metadata header" messages in the process. LVM was
> created during install on a clean system (using ubuntu-9.10-beta-
> alternate-i386.iso).
>
> $ sudo update-grub2
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> Generating grub.cfg ...
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
> error: Unknown LVM metadata header
>
> Here's some extra info that may help:
>
> $ mount
> /dev/mapper/root-root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
> none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
> none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
> none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
> none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
> none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime)
>
> $ ls -la /boot
> total 26783
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 2009-10-15 11:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2008-11-18 16:28 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 628340 2009-09-25 05:18 abi-2.6.31-11-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629174 2009-10-15 01:09 abi-2.6.31-14-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111218 2009-09-25 05:18 config-2.6.31-11-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111371 2009-10-15 01:09 config-2.6.31-14-generic
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3072 2009-10-15 11:58 grub
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7297493 2008-11-17 15:49 initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7283454 2009-10-15 11:27 initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2008-11-17 15:24 lost+found
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128796 2009-09-28 05:17 memtest86+.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1657331 2009-09-25 05:18 System.map-2.6.31-11-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1664737 2009-10-15 01:09 System.map-2.6.31-14-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1196 2009-09-25 05:21 vmcoreinfo-2.6.31-11-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1196 2009-10-15 01:12 vmcoreinfo-2.6.31-14-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3873888 2009-09-25 05:18 vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3890400 2009-10-15 01:09 vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
>
> $ sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 974 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 0+ 30 31- 248976 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 31 973 943 7574647+ 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
> /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Oct 15 11:59:41 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=C
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
> SourcePackage: grub2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
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