<html><body><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Request you to help me with the issue resolution.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><span><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">I am getting vgchange addtag error sometimes when my vg is trying to come online. Not able to get the reason behind this. It's a random behaviour and may not occur next time when the same package fails over to this node and will successfully come online.</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">WARNING: Locking disabled. Be careful! This could corrupt your metadata.</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"> vg_tag</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">Attempting to addtag to vg TestVG21...</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">vgchange <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">--addtag error</span>:</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">WARNING: Locking disabled. Be careful! This could corrupt your metadata. /dev/mpath/mpath89: write failed after 0 of 4096 at 8192: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Operation not permitted</span></span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">Activating volume group TestVG21 .</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">sg_filesystems</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"> sg_check_and_mount</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"> Checking filesystems:</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"> /dev/TestVG21/TestLV21</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/TestVG21/TestLV21</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:</span></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"> e2fsck -b 8193 <device></span></font></div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">In the similar environment sometimes i also get this error:</span></div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: times, serif;"><div class="yiv623963893MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext3'</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"></span></div></div></span><div><var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var> <br> <div>----- Forwarded Message -----<br> From: Perry Myers <pmyers@redhat.com><br> To: shashank khandelwal <khandu20@yahoo.com><br> Cc: "fdinitto@redhat.com" <fdinitto@redhat.com>; Lon Hohberger <lhh@redhat.com><br> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:27 AM<br> Subject: Re: Fw: Query on vgchange: Please help<br> <br>On 06/04/2012 03:45 PM, shashank khandelwal wrote:<br>> Hi<br>> <br>> Since Lon is out of office would request you to help me with the query.<br><br>Hi,<br><br>I'm more on the management side so probably can't help you much with<br>technical issues. Have you emailed your question to one of the upstream<br>mailing lists? I'm sure Fabio or someone upstream can help you with the<br>below question.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Perry<br><br>> Regards<br>> Sk<br>> <br>> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br>> *From:* shashank khandelwal <<a href="mailto:khandu20@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:khandu20@yahoo.com">khandu20@yahoo.com</a>><br>> *To:* Lon Hohberger <<a href="mailto:lhh@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:lhh@redhat.com">lhh@redhat.com</a>><br>> *Cc:* "<a href="mailto:fdinitto@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:fdinitto@redhat.com">fdinitto@redhat.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:fdinitto@redhat.com" ymailto="mailto:fdinitto@redhat.com">fdinitto@redhat.com</a>><br>> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:13 AM<br>> *Subject:* Query on vgchange: Please help<br>> <br>> Hi Lon<br>> <br>> Bothering you again for one of my cluster software related issue.<br>> I am getting vgchange addtag error sometimes when my vg is trying to<br>> come online. Not able to get the reason behind this. It's a random<br>> behaviour and may not occur next time when the same package fails over<br>> to this node and will successfully come online.<br>> <br>> WARNING: Locking disabled. Be careful! This could corrupt your metadata.<br>> vg_tag<br>> Attempting to addtag to vg TestVG21...<br>> vgchange --addtag error:<br>> WARNING: Locking disabled. Be careful! This could corrupt your metadata.<br>> /dev/mpath/mpath89: write failed after 0 of 4096 at 8192: Operation not<br>> permitted<br>> Activating volume group TestVG21 .<br>> sg_filesystems<br>> sg_check_and_mount<br>> Checking filesystems:<br>> /dev/TestVG21/TestLV21<br>> e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)<br>> e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open<br>> /dev/TestVG21/TestLV21<br>> <br>> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2<br>> filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2<br>> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock<br>> is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:<br>> e2fsck -b 8193 <device><br>> <br>> In the similar environment sometimes i also get this error:<br>> <br>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext3'<br>> <br>> <br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>