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

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:07:09AM -0700, 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.
Seems like an outright systemd bug, if you're not thrown into a rescue
session at some point. Can you pull the logs from this boot? (From the
options in http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/,
systemd.log_level=debug and debug-shell.service are probably most
useful).

Zbyszek