I updated all my packages and the message is now gone. On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote:
> 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. > >
