[systemd-devel] systemctl runs systemd-tty-ask-password-agent and hangs?

[Christian Hesse]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:35:51 +0200
Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:04:55 +0200
> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 20.04.11 12:12, Christian Hesse (list at eworm.de) wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:02:51 +0200 Albert Strasheim
> > > <fullung at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello again
> > > > 
> > > > I had the same problem again today trying to start a service.
> > > 
> > > Hello everybody,
> > > 
> > > I have the same problem on a number of Arch Linux Systems. The
> > > boot process stalls untill dev-{vg-{home,swap},bt-boot}.device
> > > times out after three minutes. After the system has booted /home
> > > and /boot are not mountet, swap is not activated. Running
> > > "systemctl start dev-vg-home.device" times out after three
> > > minutes as well, however I can mount the filesystems manually.
> > 
> > Sounds like LVM borkage.
> > 
> > Note that you need an up-to-date LVM with udev support enabled and
> > it must be the same version in your initrd as in your main system.
> 
> This is lvm2-2.02.84-1 and udev-167-1. lvm2 is compiled with these
> options (among others):
> 
> --with-udevdir=/lib/udev/rules.d/ --enable-udev_sync
> --enable-udev_rules
> 
> So I assume everything should be fine. My initrd is up to date.
> 
> Any ideas how to debug this?

Ok, got one step further I think.
The scripts in my initrd call

$ /sbin/vgchange --sysinit -a y

I think this breaks udev in any way? After calling

$ vgchange -a n && vgchange -a y

everything seems to work fine. I can run

$ systemctl start dev-bt-boot.device

without any delay. So what is acting the wrong way?
-- 
Schoene Gruesse
Chris