[systemd-devel] Fedora 19 hangs on startup: A start job is running for Monitoring of LVM2 mirror...rogress polling

[Ben Greear]

On 08/22/2013 09:34 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 08/22/2013 09:07 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
>> I have a E5 processor system with 128GB SSD freshly installed and updated
>> with Fedora 19.  After the initial boot, I added MATE, put system at runlevel 3,
>> removed 'initial-setup' package, and so forth.  System is
>> configured for serial console.  I'm not sure how much of this matters, however.
>>
>> On bootup, the system hung with the error:
>>
>> "A start job is running for Monitoring of LVM2 mirror...rogress polling"
>>
>> The little red stars move back and forth, so not a total cpu lock,
>> but it made no progress in this state overnight.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>
> Some further info:
>
> I rebooted the system again, and it came up mostly clean (though I believe
> the llvm mirror process failed on every boot I've paid attention too).
> It at least did not hang.
>
> Then, rebooted again, and it failed to mount the file systems.
>
> Here are some pictures of the console for this one:
> http://www.candelatech.com/~greearb/misc/IMAG0271.jpg
> http://www.candelatech.com/~greearb/misc/IMAG0272.jpg
> http://www.candelatech.com/~greearb/misc/IMAG0273.jpg
>
> Rebooted again, came up clean, except llvm mirror failed (but
> did not hang boot).
>
> Rebooted again, hung trying to mount file systems again.

I re-installed the same system w/out LVM, and now everything works
fine.

Thanks,
Ben


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