On 12/31/19 3:16 PM, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On 1/1/20 6:53 am, fsmithred via Dng wrote:
>> On 12/31/19 2:16 PM, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> On 1/1/20 4:20 am, fsmithred via Dng wrote:
>>>> On 12/31/19 12:06 PM, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote:
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>>>>> So.... how long before we can expect to get stable release
>>>>> of Beowulf? Is there a reasonable timeline available yet?
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>>>> About the only thing left to do is make the isos, and we're
>>>> working on that. Meanwhile, upgrades from ascii seem to be
>>>> pretty smooth.
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>>> Okay, so safe to update /etc/apt/sources.list and then: apt-get
>>> update apt-get dist-upgrade ... now?
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>>> For production systems or any systems?
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>>> Thanks A.
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>> For production systems, I might do an upgrade on a test system
>> first, only because I haven't heard a lot of upgrade reports. Also,
>> there might still be some issues on upgrading lvm.
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> I use lvm, a lot, what are the problems with lvm?
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>> I've upgraded standard system (no X), a few xfce systems and a
>> mate desktop. They've all been uneventful.
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> Thanks
> A.

CenturionDan posted this in irc a few days ago:
" with the 4.19 kernel LVM requires udev to be running and /run/udev to
exist in order for root on LV and other initramfs mounted volumes to be
mounted.."

I ran into this issue on some fresh installs earlier this year and had to
create and mount /run/udev in a chroot to get grub to install.

fsr