System fails to boot, drops to emergency shell and lvm commands show errors
Issue
- System is unable to boot and enters emergency mode with the following errors:
Failed to start Security Auditing Service
Failed to start Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors
- And/or, when running any lvm commands in emergency mode shows the following errors:
dracut:/# lvm lvs
Parse error at byte 49153 (line 1095): unexpected token
Failed to load config file /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
In some cases, lvm commands will show errors similar to:
dracut:/# lvm pvs
Configuration setting "filter" invalid. It's not part of any section.
dracut:/# lvm vgs
Configuration setting "filter" invalid. It's not part of any section.
dracut:/# lvm lvs -a -o +devices
Configuration setting "filter" invalid. It's not part of any section.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All versions)
- LVM2
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