Hi, after fully recovering from the update-rc.d breakage, I also still have trouble booting with sysvinit version 2.86.ds1-18. Downgrading to 2.86.ds1-15 solves the problem.
Upon trying to boot an LVM on root system, with a custom kernel and an initrd image residing on a small boot partition, I receive an fsck error message as follows below. I have attached dumps acquired from the rescue shell of /proc/mdstat, /proc/mounts, my fstab as well as the output of fdisk, lvdisplay, vgdisplay and mount in order to provide some detail on my system. I hope this will help resolve the issue in some way. Regards, Peter == Switching root ... INIT: version 2.86 booting Setting hostname to 'maia' ...done. Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd. Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done. Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...eth1394: eth2: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) done. Setting parameters of disc: (none). Activating swap:swapon: unable to open loop device /dev/loop6 failed! * Files under mount point '/tmp' will be hidden. Will now check root file system: fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) Checking all file systems. [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a rootdev -C0 /dev/vg/root Usage: fsck.ext3 [-panyrcdfvstDFSV] [-b superblock] [-B blocksize] [-I inode_buffer_blocks] [-P process_inode_size] [-I|-L bad_blocks_file] [-C fd] [-j external_journal] [-E extended-options] device Emergency help: -p Automatic repair (no questions) -n Make no changes to the filesystem -y Assume "yes" to all questions -c Check for bad blocks and add them to badblock list -f Force checking even if filesystem is marked clean -v Be verbose -b superblock Use alternative superblock -B blocksize Force blocksize when looking for superblock -j external_journal Set location of the external journal -l bad_blocks_file Add to badblocks list -L bad_blocks_file Set badblocks list fsck died with exit status 16 failed! * An automatic file system check (fsck) of the root filesystem failed. A manual fsck must be performed, then the system restarted. The fsck should be performed in maintenance mode with the root filesystem mounted in read-only mode. * The root filesystem is currently mounted in read-only mode. A maintainance shell will now be started. After performing system maintenance, press CONTROL-D to terminate the maintenance shell and restart the system. Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-maia Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages sysvinit depends on: hi initscripts 2.86.ds1-18 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.30.27-2 SELinux shared libraries ii libsepol1 1.12.26-1 Security Enhanced Linux policy lib hi sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-18 System-V-like runlevel change mech sysvinit recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 31 248976 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 32 19457 156039345 5 Extended /dev/sda5 32 19457 156039313+ fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 31 248976 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 32 19457 156039345 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 32 19457 156039313+ fd Linux raid autodetect
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/vg/root / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/vg/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/vg/swap none swap sw,loop=/dev/loop6,encryption=AES256 0 0 /dev/vg/home /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/dvdrw /media/dvdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/hd auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 merope:/mnt/disc0_1 /media/merope nfs rw,hard,lock,udp 0 0 /home /srv/chroot/sid-i386/home none bind 0 0 /root /srv/chroot/sid-i386/root none bind 0 0 /tmp /srv/chroot/sid-i386/tmp none bind 0 0 proc /srv/chroot/sid-i386/proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /srv/chroot/sid-i386/sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev /srv/chroot/sid-i386/dev none bind 0 0
--- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/swap VG Name vg LV UUID 0gX2uR-GGci-NCi2-OX8S-H2sH-KwDJ-Epzrpn LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 2.00 GB Current LE 512 Segments 1 Allocation contiguous Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/root VG Name vg LV UUID YW5ySg-6Igp-gT8S-lBxt-wai5-eWwu-Gsb02K LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 9.00 GB Current LE 2304 Segments 1 Allocation contiguous Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:1 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/home VG Name vg LV UUID 6fQFMw-VG1m-YnXq-bAK6-5vxO-W1oy-M9eOFb LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 127.00 GB Current LE 32512 Segments 1 Allocation contiguous Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:2 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg/tmp VG Name vg LV UUID IwzJ3Y-atTV-N7u5-hh5d-4TgS-44e6-7WO7Ix LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 9.00 GB Current LE 2304 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:3
/dev/vg/root on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755)
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid1 sda5[0] sdb5[1] 156039232 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none>
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-root / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg-root /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec 0 0
--- Volume group --- VG Name vg System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 46 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 4 Open LV 1 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 148.81 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 38095 Alloc PE / Size 37632 / 147.00 GB Free PE / Size 463 / 1.81 GB VG UUID A3HQrW-fzeH-0eL8-3hB1-E873-5UYs-YGhiAo