On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:55:20PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 21.10.2013 03:34, schrieb Sean Greenslade: > > And now, after another system update, the problem has vanished. > > There was a kernel update, so I'm willing to believe that it was > > just some strange transient interaction between LVM, mdadm and the > > initramfs kernel. Just another day in the life of Arch, I suppose. > > This is confusing. > > A common problem is that the mkinitcpio image is generated > mid-upgrade. If some component of lvm is updated before the kernel and > another is upgraded after, this may lead to broken images. We can't > prevent this from happening right now, but OTOH I haven't seen it in a > while. > > To be on the safe side, run 'mkinitcpio -P' after kernel updates. That would make sense. I didn't try enough downgrade-upgrade cycles to test that theory. I'll add that to the list of things to do when updating. --Sean
