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FS#21629 - Arch setup broken with LVM2

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Peter K (pkieltyka) - Sunday, 07 November 2010, 20:55 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 12 December 2010, 15:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2010.05.16-testbuild
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I'm doing a netinstall of Arch 10.05 on my x86-64 system. I've done this a million times, but this time, with my 1TB hard drive I am trying to do an installation and configure LVM2 through the setup. Honestly, every time I try to install a system and configure LVM with /arch/setup it's a pain and if I have to edit any part of it, catastrophe is around the corner. I always waste hours trying over and over again until somehow magically it works. Anyways..

I tried to keep it very simple partition scheme of:
/dev/sda1 of 100MB for /boot (ext4)
/dev/sda2 as a LVM-PV.. VG of "sys" and I made /dev/mapper/sys/swap (8GB) and /dev/mapper/sys/root (50GB) using the appropriate file systems (swap and ext4)

I selected DONE .. it went through the process to create the PV, VG, file systems .. everything was fine and then it tells me:

"ERRPR: process_filesystem needs a partition as $1"

I look in tty7 and I can see that there were no errors, and "mount" in tty2 shows me all of my newly created folders were made and mounted in the right place. Now, if only the installation would let me proceed ... even let me decide to say, YES, I force you to select packages and install where I tell you to. That would be enough for me. But instead I must jump through hoops.

I do realize I can install Arch easily through the console, it's beautifully simple, except there are advantages of Arch preparing the /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files... makes life much easier.

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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Sunday, 12 December 2010, 15:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Additional comments about closing:  this is probably a dup of  FS#19448 

if it isn't, feel free to reopen
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Monday, 15 November 2010, 21:22 GMT
you chose 'swap' and 'root' as labels for the LV's right?
and your VG (~PV) is big enough to hold at least 58GB?

so mount tells you that /dev/mapper/sys/root is mounted on /mnt/target/ ?

Can you run aif in debugmode and post the log?
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Thursday, 09 December 2010, 09:52 GMT
Also, could it be that you used hyphens in your VG/LV names? apparently that causes some breakage, see  FS#19448 

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