Bug#351679: upgrading lvm2 makes lvm2-rooted machines unbootable

[Juha Jaykka]

Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.01-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


Install sarge and kernel-image-2.6-686-smp, change sources.list to point
to unstable, dist-upgrade. LVM2 will not install since it does not support
kernels < 2.6.12.

BTW, this breaks policy (no upgrade-path from sarge to etch, assuming this
version of lvm2 ever gets to etch - this bug should prevent this).

Kernel-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp has now been installed and system works fine,
except that when I do another upgrade, it now pulls the new lvm2 into place
and after that it's not bootable. LVM2 no longer finds its volume groups.
Please bear in mind that the system has its root on LVM2, to its really not
usable at all.

-Juha

P.S. I'm sorry if this bug really belongs to kernel image and not lvm2. I
asked debian-devel for an opinion on which one should get the bug report,
but got no reply. The fact that both old LVM2 and new kernel and new LVM2
and old kernel (where new=sid, old=etch) work makes me unsure which one is
at fault.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.4.68      Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                        2.3.5-12.1  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdevmapper1.02             2:1.02.02-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-1       Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5                 5.1-5       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libselinux1                  1.28-2      SELinux shared libraries
ii  lvm-common                   1.5.20      The Logical Volume Manager for Lin

lvm2 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* lvm2/kernel:
  lvm2/snapshots: