lvm device mapper devs are symlinks to themselves

[Markus Kienast]

elias@doroga:~$ ls -l /dev/mapper/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-09-24 23:46 belly-bigfish -> belly-bigfish
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-09-24 23:46 belly-edgy_root -> belly-edgy_root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-09-24 23:46 belly-edgy_swap -> belly-edgy_swap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-09-24 23:46 belly-feisty_root -> belly-feisty_root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-09-24 23:46 belly-feisty_swap -> belly-feisty_swap
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 63 2007-09-25 01:45 control

Don't think this needs any additional explanantion. The devs are symlinks to themselves.

/boot is a primary ext3 partition everything else is LVM. The names are confusing. belly-edgy_root is actually Gutsy's root dir "/". Everything worked until the last dist-upgrade today. Actually, the last thing I did before reboot was installing the kubuntu-desktop package on my ubuntu installation.

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

dmraid was removed.
this might have been done by dist-upgrade.

so the reason most likely is that ubuntu-desktop or the like does not depend on dmraid anymore - deliberately or not?

[Ryan Bair (dr.bair)]

I have found that vgchange -an /dev/mapper/something; vgchange -ay /dev/mapper/something gets the volume working again. (For all the people trapped in the console)

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Running ‘dmsetup mknodes’ at the maintenance console allowed me to log in. Then running ‘update-initramfs -u -k all’ made my system start booting normally again.

[Markus Kienast (elias1884)]

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 02:50 +0000, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> Running ‘dmsetup mknodes’ at the maintenance console allowed me to log
> in. Then running ‘update-initramfs -u -k all’ made my system start
> booting normally again.
>

My LVM-root was successfully mounted even though there was no dev
in /dev/mapper. It was just my /home which did not get mounted. So I was
able to install the dmraid package wich solved the problem for me.

[Ergosys (ergosys)]

I used the following variation to fix it:

PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin # only had /sbin and /bin in maintenance mode
mount /dev/sda1 /boot # I have a boot partition
# not sure what is needed here, but this is what I did:
apt-get install dmraid
dmsetup mknodes
update-initramfs -u -k all

[Ryan Bair (dr.bair)]

We can probably consider the issue closed. I suspect the accidental removal of dmraid during a dist-upgrade caused this issue. My only addition to Ergosys' steps was that I needed to mount my unmounted LVM volumes before 'update-initramfs -u -k all'.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

I don’t think the dmraid package is related to anything, because I neither installed it nor ever had it installed.

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