Logical volumes are not activated on boot

QkiZ

12/15/23, 4:41 PM

Ubuntu 22.04.1 here. I have a volume group called system created during installation. There are three logical volumes in this group.

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/system/swap
  LV Name                swap
  VG Name                system
  LV UUID                qeGYCG-PseM-IzIW-rpit-0zwI-lbKs-q0jL8D
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time ubuntu-server, 2022-12-02 19:20:46 +0000
  LV Status              NOT available
  LV Size                1,00 GiB
  Current LE             256
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/system/root
  LV Name                root
  VG Name                system
  LV UUID                qx6W1r-e20x-VfwG-1Sdg-uGE3-rRW9-89k24O
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time ubuntu-server, 2022-12-02 19:20:47 +0000
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                10,00 GiB
  Current LE             2560
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:0
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/system/drbd
  LV Name                drbd
  VG Name                system
  LV UUID                rQxv3f-pJds-JU1z-9Hqd-hi81-3kAt-zlcVbh
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time ubuntu-server, 2022-12-02 19:20:49 +0000
  LV Status              NOT available
  LV Size                <21,00 GiB
  Current LE             5375
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto

This is an output of lvdisplay command right after a reboot. On every reboot logical volume swap and drbd isn't activated. I need to use vgchange -ay command to activate them by hand. Only root logical volume is available, on this volume system is installed. Adding volume names to auto_activation_volume_list in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf does not help.

Why does this happen?

Update #1

I tried to recreate logical volume. First I removed the swap volume, then recreated it with a different name. Still same problem after reboot. Volume is not activated till vgchange -ay.

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Romeo Ninov

12/15/23, 5:10 PM

What is the content of `/etc/sysconfig/lvm`?

QkiZ

12/15/23, 6:05 PM

This is Ubuntu, not Centos/Redhat/any_rpm_distro. No such file on Ubuntu.

Chris Hatton

4/8/24, 10:52 AM

I also have this problem. Tried disabling `udev_rules` in `lvm.conf` to fall back on LVM's default 'activate everything' behaviour, but still Logical Volumes aren't activate on boot until `vgchange -ay`

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