[linux-lvm] vgscan -- no volume groups found

[Andreas Dilger]

Jonathan DeHaan writes:
> beta 6 tools vgscan seems to work, and with a beta6 kernel, I am finally

Yes, I know.  I have submitted a patch for this already.

> back into my system. However, I cannot mount loop devices. losetup works,
> but mount fails with no messages, and it's process cannot be killed even
> with kill -9. ps lists it's state as D (uninterruptable sleep). Any ideas?

If you have 2.4.2 then this is a bug in the kernel.  I think it is fixed
in 2.4.3.  I just had the same problem this afternoon.

Cheers, Andreas
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