[linux-lvm] pb with activating VG after rebooting

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

Julien,

you didn't mention the LVM version you are using.

I assume, you are going with LVM 0.9.1 Beta 7 which can cause that problem.
We are working on a fix right now (likely available in a couple of days :-()

What you could do in the meantime as a try to help you:
- dd the first megabyte of every PV to a save place (in order to recover)
- restore a backup metadata file with vgcfgrestore(8) which doesn't include
  the change for the added PV
- vgscan;vgchange -ay

Sorry for the incenvenience.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
 

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:10:01PM +0200, Julien Baboud wrote:
> in the world of bugs&errors:
> i've obtained the following msg at kernel booting and with the vgscan
> command :
> 
> %vgscan
> vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> vgscan -- found active volume group "vg1"
> vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg2"
> vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg3"
> vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
> vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume
> groups
> 
> and when i try to activate the inactive VGs, i get this :
> 
> %vgchange -a y vg2
> vgchange -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up snapshot copy on write
> exception table for "/dev/vg2/lv2_1_snap"
> 
> %vgchange -a y vg3
> vgchange -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up snapshot copy on write
> exception table for "/dev/vg3/lv3_1_snap"
> 
> what is the matter since the same operations have been doing on the 3 VG
> (except that the 3rd VG was extended...) ?
> and how to repare this ?
> 
>  julien4atix
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