Bug#678687: Re: Bug#724275: initramfs-tools should change the resume device

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

I'm not sure your message belongs really to #678687, as not every cases
of LVM detection may be caused by the use of uswsusp, but anyway... I'm
adding #724275 in case, which exhibits swap LVM2, hibernation and uswsusp.

Maybe a "blocked by" BTS pointer may be interested between the 2
(provided this is indeed the cause... see my other messages about #724554).

I hope this gives some context of the original reporter of #678687 at
least, and sorry for the noise ;)

Rodolfo García Peñas <kix at debian.org> writes:

> Hi Olivier, Kapil,
>
> because IMO this bug is very important, and the system cannot boot, I
> created a new uswsusp package. The change is save the resume device as
> /dev/mapper (not like uuid device) if the user is using lvm2.
>

As I mentioned in another message, as a user, I feel I don't really need
uswsusp at the moment to have working hibernation, and the fix for
#724554 may be enough for me now.

> Could you test this new package? Is here:
> http://kix.es/uswsusp_1.0+20120915-5/
>

I'm afraid I won't for the moment : it's a bit annoying to have to
reboot the machine I'm using to test... so I'd prefer to wait until
things have stabilized a bit, until a package supposed to fix #724554 is
released, i.e. without uswusp installed for the moment.

> If you are using amd64, you can download the deb file and install
> it. If you are using other arch, then you need build the package.  I
> didn't sign the package because is only a proposal, not the final
> package.
>

Btw, maybe you have a sources repository available which would could be
used by those interested in testing, tracking the changes ? Depends on
whether people feel more comfortable with git or a pre-made source
package...

> Thanks a lot for your help.
> kix.
>

I hope you don't take offense of my poor helping here, but I have other
priorities than testing all the intricacies of initrd scripts at the
moment. I do appreciate your help, but I'm not competent enough in init
matters to be so much motivated, regarding the time I can spend on
Debian matters.


Btw, for testing such issues, I'm wondering whether a VM solution like
virt-manager + qemu/kvm could provide the necessary bits to test swap on
LVM in a guest VM... Sorry if this is oviously not helpful. Just
wondering if that may help.

Thanks again for your help.

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER 
http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)