Ubuntu
partman-lvm package

Installer freezes after creating a new LV

Bug #108935 reported by blasd
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: partman-lvm

i'm using the ubuntu 7.04 (final) alternate install cd for the i386 platform.
My problem is as follows:
When I'm creating a new logical volumen and I hit <enter> to create the new LV the screen just stays blue with that grey line at the bottom and nothing happens even after 10 minutes of waiting.
If I reboot then and the installation starts again I can see the newly created LV in the LVM configuration but I can't use it as a partition to install Ubuntu.
I don't think it's a harddisk failure or something like that, because I tried exactly the same with the debian etch installer cd and it worked fine on the same pc.

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Thomas Werzmirzowsky (werzi2001) wrote :

Hi@ll,

same problem here.
As far as i figured out the system doesn't freeze it just waits for something to happen. On the console (Ctrl-Alt-F4) i get the following timeout:

Rendevous with udev timed out for <lv>; stat failed: No such file or directory

The error is repeated for every LV in my system. After every LVs have been "timed out" the installer continues. This "feeze" happens after every change that i do to my LVM configuration.

Thomas W

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Brian Stucker (obsidian97) wrote :

I too thought it was sitting there doing absolutely nothing and spent quite a bit of time tearing my hair out because it looked hung.

It wasn't hung in my case, it was just deep in thought. After about a minute (creating one 40Gb LV as part of a two-partition 20Gb each VG) it finally came back to life. No idea what's going on, but the installer shouldn't just sit there with nothing on the screen leaving you waiting.

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Thomas Werzmirzowsky (werzi2001) wrote :

On my computer it takes about 3 minutes per LV in my system. I have 5 LVs... so it takes about 15 minutes after every change :(
It would take about 2 hours to complete my LVM configuration.

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Phil Mocek (pmocek) wrote : see related bug

see also: Bug #105623: "udev rules missing from udeb" <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devmapper/+bug/105623>

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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

Feisty is not supported anymore. Please reopen this report if this is still an issue in a later version of Ubuntu.

Changed in partman-lvm:
status: New → Invalid
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