Quoting Wessel Dankers (wsl-launch...@fruit.je): > What I'm seeing is a vgchange process that hangs until udev kills it. > When it is killed it has only initialized a few LV's and most symlinks > in /dev/<vgname> are missing. Perhaps this is a different bug, but the > symptoms are exactly those from the original bug report. > > Also, I'm not preventing udev's exit from blocking on the vgchange > completing but rather the reverse: I'm preventing vgchange's completing > to block on udev.
Right, with that I was referring to my earlier solution of daemonizing watershed. But, > >From what I understand, vgchange waits for udev to finish processing the > new device nodes before returning to the user so that after the command > completes, the user can be sure that the nodes are created. Only in this > case udev *is* the user, so it doesn't make sense to wait, and in fact > creates a deadlock. If that is the only point of the sync, then your solution is the best one. Thanks for your input, Wessel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/802626 Title: vgchange may deadlock in initramfs when VG present that's not used for rootfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lvm2/+bug/802626/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
