Hi,all
I have encountered several bugs of system-config-lvm.
The first one is if there is a logical volume entry in /etc/fstab
and another raw device entry for swap
such as
/dev/my_vg1/my_lv1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
then if we use system-config-lvm to remove my_lv1,
Not only the my_lv1 entry,but all other swap entries in /etc/fstab will get removed.
After some investigation on the system-config-lvm python source file.
It seems that the problem is in the InputController.py file.
When we click the remove button,the program will check if there is any entry of the removed logical volume in /etc/fstab.
If any entry exist in /etc/fstab, it will remove this line from /etc/fstab so that when the system reboot it won't mount this logical volume(since it has been removed).
This procedure is OK.However,the program will delete the corresponding entry in the following way:
1.check what is the mount point of this logical volume.(in our case it is swap)
2.search /etc/fstab file,delete all the entries with the same mount point.This won't result in any trouble if the logical volume is mounted on /mnt/mylv1 .but if the mount point is swap ,it will delete all swap entries in /etc/fstab file.
I have created a patch to solve this problem,which modify the removing procedure if the mount point is swap.
There is several other bugs with system-config-lvm but the root cause should be the same.
this problem exist in enterprise linux 5 and enterprise linux 5 U1.
Is this a fixed bug?Any advice is appreciated!
Thanks
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