[CentOS] One of my servers wont boot today

On 01/30/2012 07:14 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote:
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>>> It says "File based locking initialization failed"
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>> Try the --ignorelockingfailure argument.
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> I am not familiar with that and 'man lvdisplay' does not show it as an option. Google for that turns up more results. Is it used with e2fsck, I dont see it there either.
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It's an option for most LVM commands. Do a "man lvdisplay" and look in the 
SYNOPSIS section. Apparently most options lvdisplay understands aren't 
actually listed in the OPTIONS section.

Regards,
   Dennis