[linux-lvm] Help! Problems finding VG after reboot.

AJ Lewis lewis at sistina.com
Tue Feb 6 19:31:07 UTC 2001


On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:22:40PM -0600, AJ Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 04:58:22PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 gobo at gimle.nu wrote:
> > 
> > > Running vgscan I got the following message:
> > > 
> > > # vgscan
> > > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> > > vgscan -- found inactive volume group "widow"
> > > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get 
> > > data of volume group "widow" from physical volume(s)
> > > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" creating 
> > > "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
> > 
> > I am running into the same bug, with the very latest LVM
> > utilities and kernel 2.4.1.
> > 
> > I have posted a bugreport in the LVM bugzilla, but I haven't
> > heard anything from the LVM developers. Lets just hope they're
> > not ignoring us...
> 
> The problem with your bug report on Bugzilla is that it is confusing.  You
> added to a bug that complained about vgscan seg-faulting.  That bug is
> obviously fixed.  The problem now is that vgscan no longer finds proper data
> in the volume group.  This should be posted as a separate bug report, not
> tacked onto the end of the old one.  

This is now bug #193 (http://bugzilla.sistina.com/show_bug.cgi?id=193)


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