I can confirm this on machines where an iSCSI SAN is in use. There's no killing the vgcfgbackup process, either - it goes into uninterruptible sleep, presumably waiting on i/o. I have to comment that line from the postinst script to successfully update.
** Changed in: lvm2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- [hardy] lvm2 update fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191663 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs