[Bug 906358] Re: udev and lvm2 hang at boot

[Davide]

Hi, I am experiencing the same bug on some of my machines with kernel 3.0.0-14.
I found you can easily reproduce the issue on a virtualbox vm by installing a minimal system on a logical volume.
The system will hang for 61 sec at next reboot if you use lvcreate to create additional logical volumes.

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Title:
  udev and lvm2 hang at boot

Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm experiencing a really long wait when booting freshly installed
  xubuntu 11.10 with only updates and mdadm + lvm2 installed. I have
  managed to narrow it down somewhat but still looking for a fix.

  After disabling splash and quiet from grub I noticed it's waiting at /scripts/init-bottom/udev in initrd and continues after 61 seconds.
  Not surprisingly i found a "udevadm control --timeout 61 --exit" line in there. Well, why does it fail so badly it waits for timeout before exiting?

  After quite a bit of googling I found this:
  http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/problem-lvm-gets-stuck-during-booting-due-recent-uevent-change-help-205241751.html
  Ari Savolainen writes:
  An init script (/scripts/init-bottom/udev in initrd) issues command
  "udevadm control --timeouta --exit".
  At the same time udevd is executing "/sbin/lvm vgchange -a y" (from
  /lib/udev/rules.d/85-lvm2.rules) that calls ioctl to resume a logical
  volume. After that lvm gets stuck forever. Booting continues after the
  61 second timeout.

  Milan Broz writes:
  If you call vgchange or even vgscan from udev rule, it is completely wrong.
  This is not lvm upstream udev rule btw.

  This makes me slightly worried, does this cause any other problems
  than a annoyingly slow boot? Is there any way to fix this? I this a
  known issue?

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