On 16/12/15 03:10 PM, Carlos Davila wrote:
Hi,
During boot I am getting the following message:
lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation during sysinit
"disk/by-uuid-<snip>": Invalid path for Logical Volume.
But I have no logical volumes on my system (Stretch on sdb). The
system eventually boots and all is good, except for this message. At
one time, I had installed lvm2 (it has since been removed) in Stretch
on sdb because I had previously installed a version of Stretch on
another drive (sda) that did use logical volumes. The Stretch on sda
was using the swap area on sdb at the time and grub2 was and is still
installed on sda so I can boot into either system. I have since
reinstalled Stretch on sda using partitions rather than logical
volumes. However I get the above message every time I boot into
Stretch on sdb.
It seems that sysinit is trying to mount a logical volume that is not
there. The uuid in the message is the path for my root filesystem
partition on sdb with mount point "/" and is not a logical volume.
Hope this is clear. Would appreciate any suggestions you may have.
Carlos
Can't help you beyond confirming that the problem exists. I treat it as
a minor annoyance at worst. In my case I boot from /dev/sda which is an
SDD devoted entirely to / but I get the message anyway. I've taken your
advice and removed lvm2 from my system, so hopefully the message will
also vanish.
I've never used LVM because I believe in the KISS principle and don't
see any real need for LVM in most systems. As this demonstrates, even
unused software can create problems.
