On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:54:18PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I just did a big update with the latest wheezy update (using the aptitude > GUI). Several things seemed odd; and I'm not sure if everything is OK. > I'm hoping for some info about what's going on.
I'll try to do my best. I'm sure someone else will jump in if I'm wrong somewhere. > > I have LVM volume groups that are missing disks, which produce errors > during some operations (e.g., update-initramfs). In the past the errors > haven't prevented updates from working. > > I've listed the oddities with the ones most likely to indicate a real > problem first. > > I) "failed" message > This time the installation messages included "failed" (2nd to last line > below) > ----------------------------------------- > Setting up lvm2 (2.02.95-8) ... > [....] Setting up LVM Volume Groups... Couldn't find device with uuid > GKasb9-Qo8q-vC83-S0N7-cvUd-nE0J-EEeMgv. > Couldn't find device with uuid eDiLHt-Pzom-tjdr-Ky12-Z6Gx-o3Iz-lYh1wL. > [snip more errors] > Refusing activation of partial LV cyrspool. Use --partial to override. > Refusing activation of partial LV cyrlib. Use --partial to override. > failed. > update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) > -------------- These make sense to me if you have missing disks in some volume groups. Why you didn't get them before, I don't know. I would suggest you consider remedying the volume groups missing disks issue. Perhaps pvremove, or more likely vgreduce? ------------------------------------ > > Though the last 2 messages look OK > --------------------------------- > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 > ------------------------------ > > So, aside from the fact I'm missing disks that are not essential for > operation, have my initrd's and grub been updated properly? > Looks to me like the answer is yes, though I could be wrong. > 2) Grub Reports Missing Disk > > Before any of the above I got a debconf dialog from grub: > ------------------------------------------------- > > | The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a disk that is no > longer present, or whose unique identifier has changed for some reason. It > is important ??? > ??? to make sure that the installed GRUB core image stays in sync with GRUB > modules and grub.cfg. Please check again to make sure that GRUB is written > to the ??? > ??? appropriate boot devices. > # followed by a list of devices on which to install grub > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This seemed peculiar because one of the disks listed was the one on which > GRUB was already installed. > > Anyway, I told it to install there again. > > It may be relevant that I am not booting off sda. sda likely also has grub > on it, and some of the dead disks did as well. > As long as you reinstalled to whatever you were booting from until now, you probably won't have booting issues. I could be wrong here too. > 3) Lots of updates > > I got a whole batch of updates, apparently coinciding with the release of > Debian 7.2. Am I missing something in sources.list? Before wheezy these > point releases were basically non-events for me because I had picked up the > updates as they came out. Currently I have > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > That's what I have as well. > 4) Unknown Debian release: 7.1 > > At the very start of the install: > ------------------------------------------------ > Extracting templates from packages: 100% > Preconfiguring packages ... > supported_versions: WARNING: Unknown Debian release: 7.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Why 7.1 would be unknown I don't know. I presume that is what I was > running. One of the updates to base-files included the move to 7.2 as the > base version but a) I don't think that would have taken effect so early in > the installation process and b) I don't see why it would make 7.1 unknown. That is weird. If your /etc/debian_version says "7.2" without the quotes of course, you should be ok. > > Thanks. > Ross Boylan You're welcome, and HTH. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131013063159.ga21...@gregn.net
