Re: [Libguestfs] [v2v PATCH] convert_linux: remove LVM2 "devices file"

A recent feature of LVM2 is the "devices file" <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvmdevices.8.html>;. It speeds up LVM2 PV discovery on a normal system, but an old devices file in a converted domain (with different hardware) can prevent the assembly of volume groups. In particular, when converting a physical system to a guest with virt-p2v, the original system will have used "sys_wwid"-type identifiers in the LVM2 devices file, and those are guaranteed not to match any virtio-blk disks in the output domain. We've seen a similar issue in the past under RHBZ#1164853, so just extend the same scrubbing with the new pathname. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112801 Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek(a)redhat.com&gt; --- convert/convert_linux.ml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/convert/convert_linux.ml b/convert/convert_linux.ml index a66ff1e45a57..2aaa438e42ac 100644 --- a/convert/convert_linux.ml +++ b/convert/convert_linux.ml @@ -1402,11 +1402,11 @@ let convert (g : G.guestfs) source inspect keep_serial_console _ = * device names. blkid will rebuild these on demand. * * Delete the LVM cache since it will contain references to the - * old devices (RHBZ#1164853). + * old devices (RHBZ#1164853, RHBZ#2112801). *) List.iter g#rm_f [ "/etc/blkid/blkid.tab"; "/etc/blkid.tab"; - "/etc/lvm/cache/.cache" + "/etc/lvm/cache/.cache"; "/etc/lvm/devices/system.devices" ];