On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 22:13 +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Just to add another data point, I ran into the same problem. > > Booting stops with > > > ALERT! /dev/mapper/vgsys-sid--usr does not exist. Dropping to a shell. > > In busybox I can fix the problem by activating the volume groups: > > > (initramfs) vgchange -a y > > 30 logical volume(s) in volumgroup "vgsys" now active > > Hitting Ctrl-D afterwards resumes the boot. For some odd reason, it > notices that /usr has been mounted 922 times without being checked and > forces the fsck. I never checked (nor do I really care, /usr can be > recovered from ftp.debian.org). > > The version of initramfs-tools on my system is 0.117 as well. I would > consider this as serious since that system booted just fine since its > installation in 2009, not counting the systemd transition which made it > unbootable two times. > > > I attached the trace.log from running mkinitramfs.
I suspect this is essentially the same bug as #616689 and #678696, except that now it may affect mounting /usr as well as /. I hope to fix it with changes along the lines of those proposed in #678696, but more work is required to complete the implementation. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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