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cannot boot with lvm-on-dmcrypt

Bug #333073 reported by Martin Pool
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Bug Description

I have an X61s thinkpad running jaunty. It's just experienced the following regression today; it was working ok until last night's updates.

I have it configured with the whole drive aside from /boot in an encrypted partition, and then lvm on top of that.

Booting proceeds normally until the point where I'm asked for my disk passphrase. I enter that I'm told "key slot 0 unlocked" and then the disk light comes on but nothing seems to happen for about a minute.

At intervals of several minutes I do get screenfuls of output like this:

  /sys/devices/virtual/blrock/dm-0 (5209)

repeated many times with decreasing numbers. Then a little bit of normal output:

Command successful.
File descriptor 3 left open
  2 logical volumes in volume group "lithe" now active
cryptsetup: sdb1_crypt setup successfully.
Done.
CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
Begin: waiting for root filesystem... ...

This is on a text mode console, in recovery mode.

20 minutes later there's still disk io and no progress.

Unfortunately the latest update uninstalled my older kernel versions so I can't try one of them.

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

I ran the bios disk diagnostics and they passed, so I don't think this is caused by a hardware problem.

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

About three hours later it's still stuck. It does occasionally print out more block numbers but nothing else...

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

Using an Intrepid USB boot device, I can bring the machine up, and it can see the disk. I need to manually install cryptsetup and lvm2 into that environment and modprobe dm_crypt. I can then run "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1", then I can see the pv, vg, and lv. I can fsck and mount the filesystem ok.

I tried installing http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/linux-image-2.6.28-1-386, the only alternative kernel apparently available in jaunty at the moment. If I boot that, I get a timeout trying to mount the root and then dropped into an initramfs shell. I can from there manually run cryptsetup again, and it does print many of the /sys/devices/ messages, but it eventually terminates and says it succeeded in mounting the device. I can see it in lvm, but I can't seem to mount it and I don't get any message beyond "invalid argument" when trying to mount the lv.

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

this may be a dupe of #332270...

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Michael Evans (mjevans1983) wrote :

Confirmed as being duplicate. Only one line and a description of how to make more were posted, but that's most definitely the signature of this bug.

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