After I updated my system it no longer booted correctly. To work around this problem I added =sys-fs/lvm2-2.00.33-r1 to /etc/portage/package.mask and re-emerged lvm2 (and got the previous version which doesn't dynamically link against the lib in /usr). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /usr is an LVM partition 2. emerge lvm2 3. reboot Actual Results: system failed to fsck because the LVM partitions were not active. The LVM partitions were not active because vgchange was dynamically linked against something in /usr (I think libgpm) /usr was unavailable because it was an LVM partition that didn't get fscked or mounted. Expected Results: boot normally Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.28-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.28-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 23 2005, 16:44:54)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/thoth/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X Xaw3d acl apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd f77 fam font-server foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mjpegi mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses nls nojython oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l vim-with-x wmf xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
please do a ldd /sbin/lvm on the 2.00.33 version.
there is a new 2.00.33-r2 ebuild that builds statically by default because the files are in /sbin. Please let me know if that fixes your issues.
To those who have been bitten by this bug, you can repair your system with a little work. This info is distilled from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml Boot from a liveCD. I still had the CD-RW I used to install gentoo in the first place. We are not re-installing, just giving ourselves a working copy of LVM. Then I activated LVM and mounted my filesystem heirarchy (you will most likely have to adjust your mount commands since these are for MY system, not yours) using the following commands: modprobe dm-mod vgchange -a y # adjust these for your system mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo mount /dev/vg0/lv_usr /mnt/gentoo/usr mount /dev/vg0/lv_var /mnt/gentoo/var mount /dev/vg0/lv_home /mnt/gentoo/home chroot /mnt/gentoo echo =sys-fs/lvm2-2.00.33-r1 >> /etc/portage/package.mask emerge -pv lvm2 emerge lvm2 ldd /sbin/vgchange And make sure it isn't dynamically linked against something in /usr still. Once the new version of lvm is installed in /mnt/gentoo, you may reboot and eject the CD, and you should have a bootable system again.
The 2.0.33-r2 ebuild appears to solve my problem.
newer ebuilds fix this issue
