[artix-general] [artix][s6] lvmetad failing to start not able to create socket

[Dudemanguy]

>Is there a missing dependency which should create that directory prior to starting lvmetad?

Creating a directory in the script is perfectly fine. It's common and 
some other services do this as well. /run is a tmpfs anyway, so programs 
can store any runtime information they want there.

 >By default /etc/lvm/lvm.conf comes with "use_lvmpolld = 1", meaning 
it's expecting to have lvmpoll daemon running.  On arch, the service 
executes "lvmpolld -t 60 -f".  Artix doesn't include that daeomon as 
part of the S6 available ones on /etc/s6/sv:

It's included now. I just did a somewhat large rewrite of the lvm2-s6 
package. You can enable the gremlins repo in your /etc/pacman.conf and 
test it out (once your mirror updates of course). The systemd services 
on Arch do many, many things. I did my best to replicate them and 
integrate s6-log into every one of them. Using lvm2-s6 is entirely 
optional, you can access lvm volumes just fine without it. What lvm2-s6 
does is make use of lvmetad to read and cache lvm metadata so you can 
use lvm commands without scanning the disks. I've setup the oneshots and 
longrun daemons to all fall under the "lvm2" bundle which, on install, 
adds itself to the mount-filesystems dependencies file. lvm2-services 
are, of course, boot-worthy so you shouldn't have to enable or add 
anything special. It should "just work". If you could give it a try and 
let me know if there are any issues or not on your setup, that would be 
great.