The function 99shutdown/shutdown.sh:_check_shutdown() assumes that
shutdown scripts report success or failure via their return value.
However, "dmsetup remove_all" always reports success, even if some
of the device mappings could not be removed.
I submitted a patch for dmsetup but the lvm2 folks rejected it,
asserting that its behaviour is correct, that "remove_all" should
only be used by developers and that the proper solution would be
to invoke "dmsetup remove" on each device. This does report success
or failure via the return value.
Apart from fixing that issue, this commit also adds the dmsetup
option "--noudevsync". Without it, dmsetup would hang after removal
of a device while trying to communicate with systemd-udevd, which
is no longer running at this shutdown stage.
[harald: replaces backticks with $() ]
Add new functions require_binaries() and require_any_binary() to be used
in the check() section of module-setup.sh.
These functions print a warning line telling the user, which binary is
missing for the specific dracut module.
This unifies the way of checking for binaries and makes the life of an
initramfs creator easier, if he wants to find out why a specific dracut
module is not included in the initramfs.
Another solution could be searching in directories found at
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf or adding a new parameter. Here is a patch
which adds a new --libdirs parameter, and also a new inst_libdir_file
function which will try to expand metacharacters on each lib
directory:
inst_libdir_file "libdevmapper-event-lvm*.so"
The dm module, which lvm and dmraid depend on, installed dmraid
shared libs. The lvm module installed udev rules, which were
already installed by the dm module.
Cleaned up those issues.
Harald Hoyer