[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#506634: lvm2 installed?

[Tobias Kunze Briseño]

I had the same symptom (well, the message "cryptsetup: failed to setup
lvm device", but I didn't wait for initrd to drop me into busybox).

Inspection of the initrd via

   mkdir /tmp/initrd && cd /tmp/initrd
   zcat /boot/initrd.img-VERSION | cpio -id

showed that, among others, sbin/lvm2 was missing. Sure enough,

   dpkg -l lvm\* 

confirmed that the lvm2 package had somehow (unintentionally) been
purged, so I ran

   aptitude install lvm2
   update-initramfs -u -k VERSION

et voilà!, problem solved (for me).

HTH,

-Tobias