lvm2 tries to use xargs during shutdown, but xargs isn't available during this stage because /usr has been unmounted at the time. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: grep xargs /lib/rcscripts/addons/* /lib/rcscripts/addons/lvm-stop.sh: LOGICAL_VOLUMES=`lvdisplay |grep "LV Name"|awk '{print $3}'|sort|xargs echo` /lib/rcscripts/addons/lvm-stop.sh: VOLUME_GROUPS=`vgdisplay |grep "VG Name"|awk '{print $3}'|sort|xargs echo` /lib/rcscripts/addons/lvm-stop.sh: VG_HAS_ACTIVE_LV=`vgdisplay ${x}|grep "Open LV"|awk '{print $3}'|xargs echo` and which xargs /usr/bin/xargs cat /etc/gentoo-release Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
xargs should perhaps be located in /bin instead?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93326 ***