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After successfully upgraded to 16.04, I am now getting this message whilst booting
lvmetad not active yet, using direct access

You'reAGitForNotUsingGit
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Kitcho
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  • I have a similar problem - this message appears briefly after logging in to the desktop. And then I get thrown back to the log-in screen. Console access (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F6) works OK. I've hunted around a little:
    • tried removing .Xauthority. No benefit
    • tried apt-get install xubuntu-desktop, and apt-get autoremove. No benefit (although the log-in screen is different)
     – Chrisky Apr 23 '16 at 09:37
  • Unlike Chrisky I am unable to login at all. After grub I get the same mesage as Kitcho lvmetad not active yet, using direct access. I can not execute any command. My root partition was lvm. – Torrien Apr 24 '16 at 00:40
  • Please flag the question as a duplicate – Andrea Corbellini Oct 13 '16 at 01:42

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This is an inofensive message and you should not worry about it.

If you do 'man lvmetad' you'll find that it is a daemon that caches disk metadata. If this daemon is not available, lvm will read the metadata from the disk. This may be a problem with very complex systems with hundreds of volumes, but it is not for a desktop.

Every message that says it has been solved by touching grub or after installing some packages, has probably solved by upgrading the system and recreating the grub configuration.

This is a very very low priority bug and was there in Ubuntu and Debian for a while. Probably will dissapear in a upgrade without doing anything.

I've got that message for a while and without any adverse condition.

People complaining to be unable to login are being affected by another error and should continue checking the logs to find it.

Telegrapher
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Thanks to @Kyle in this thread, you can stop this blocking your interactive ttys from appearing with the following:

I managed to resolve this for my machines by adjusting the grub configuration like so:

In /etc/default/grub, change:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset" Then add this line: GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="console serial" Run sudo update-grub and reboot for the changes to take effect.

cleary
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  • This just sends logs somewhere else, maybe impacting useful log reporting. Solves nothing regarding what is being logged. – Telegrapher Sep 26 '18 at 22:23
  • In the thread you mention they solve a video issue by enabling nomodeset, it is absolutely unrelated to the messages. – Telegrapher Sep 26 '18 at 22:28
  • You are correct, but the I believe the problem OP is experiencing is absolutely unrelated to the messages, beyond the messages appearance being a symptom. The problem is that the TTY this message appears in is non-interactive (ie the user cannot login). What I believe OP is asking for, is an interactive tty to appear immediately instead of having to manually switch to one using ctrl-alt-f[1-7] every time they boot. Now, fair enough I may be reading more into the issue than required, however this question ranked highly in the google results when I was trying to resolve the issue detailed – cleary Oct 03 '18 at 01:41