[linux-lvm] odd problem

[Todd Underwood]

howdy,

i'm almost positive (i know... famous last words) that they are up to
date, because the same kernel boots with a different root. 

i lost some files in /etc/ due to stupidity and had to restore them (the
wonders of ext2 file undeletion by hand!) but i ran vgck to check volumes
and it seems fine.  i even copied all of /etc/ over from the working linux
root partition to the non-working logical volume and that didn't seem to
help.  i've run fsck on it to no avail.  

happy to provide addl info.  i'm going to double check that the patches
are on the kernel and the kernel is recompiled and the initrd is right and
the user tools are right.

todd underwood
chief technology officer
oso grande technologies, inc.
todd at osogrande.com

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Day, Evan wrote:

> Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 15:48:28 -0700
> From: "Day, Evan" <Evan.Day at SUMMITSITE.COM>
> Reply-To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
> To: "'linux-lvm at sistina.com'" <linux-lvm at sistina.com>
> Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] odd problem
> 
> It sounds like the kernel patch revision doesn't match the revision of 
> the user-level tools - I saw these types of messages when running beta-7 
> tools with a stock 2.4.3 kernel.  Have you made sure the tools/libraries 
> on your initrd image are up to date?
> 
> -Evan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Underwood [mailto:todd at osogrande.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 3:36 PM
> To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
> Subject: [linux-lvm] odd problem
> 
> 
> folx,
> 
> i have 2.4.3 with beta-7 patches installed and beta-7 userland tools.  i'm
> using lvm-initrd with a boot partition on /dev/hda2 and LVM root and other
> filesystems on a few scsi disks.  all was working well but recently i
> needed to reboot (i was unable to increase the size of my / with the
> online ext2 tools and it was full--not sure what the error was there, or
> whether that is relevant).
> 
> in any case, now i reboot and i get
> lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl:  unknown command 4004fe0a
> vgchange -- volume group "rootvg" successfully activated
> 
> VGS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> change_root: old root has d_count=3
> Trying to unmount old root ... <7>uhci.c: suspect_hd
> okay
> 
> a bunch of other stuff
> 
> then:
> 
> Activating swap partitions swapon: /dev/rootvg/swap: Invalid argument
> Setting hostname zapata.staff.osogrande.net execvp: No such file or
> directory
> 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:  domainname: command not found
> 
> and so on.  looks like nothing's mounted.  the same kernel boots fine with
> an older root fs on a 'real' partition.
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> todd underwood
> chief technology officer
> oso grande technologies, inc.
> todd at osogrande.com
> 
> 
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