On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well I installed parted/libparted from rawhide to get version 2.3 as I > was bitten by the resize bug and some other issues with the current > version in Fedora 12/13. It pulled in a few dependencies and one of > them broke my system, I'm thinking it was dev-mapper. > > On reboot LVM was able to find all 4 of my logical volumes but then > the boot process fails and I get a message that I need to run e2fsck. > The actual problem is that for some reason only two of my four LVs are > showing in /dev/mapper... I booted System Rescue CD and it was able to > mount the LVs fine and they all checked out clean. > > I have the following LVM layout: > > VG: vg-hobbes > LVs: lv-root, lv-var, lv-swap > > VG: vg-home (whole disk VG, no dos partition) > LV: lv-home > > Only lv-home and lv-var are showing up in /dev/mapper > > My plan at this point is to boot a Fedora LiveCD, mount my LVs and > chroot to it. I'm hoping rpm and yum will work properly from a > chroot'ed environment. The short version is the chroot worked. For those of you who want to know the gory details read on: I didn't have any x86_64 boot discs handy so I ended up burning one from my desktop by booting to my System Rescue CD that I've got installed on my /boot partition, burning a F13 64bit install DVD and booting it into rescue mode. After that I: - chroot'd to /mnt/sysimage which rescue mode automatically mounts your existing file system. If you don't use a Rescue mode you'll have to do that part manually. - figured out what the offending packages were by 'grep fc14 /var/log/yum.log > fc14_packages.txt' - Edited the resulting file removing everything but the base package name - Did a "yum downgrade `cat fc14_packages.txt`" - (probable unnecessary steps) exited the chroot and did a 'sync' - Rebooted On the first reboot it wanted to so a selinux relabel on the whole file system. Not sure why.. but everything came up normally on the second reboot! Next time I try packages from rawhide I think I'll setup a LVM snapshot first although I think I still would have to boot to a Rescue disk or other Live system to drop the snapshot and I'm not sure if snapshot merging is available yet in Fedora. Richard Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
