[linux-lvm] New details on VGScan crash on 2.4.4

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:44:43AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Glenn writes:
> > Well, after much deliberation as to how BADLY I needed a /usr partition
> > under 2.4.4....
> > 
> > I booted it in single-user (blech) under 2.4.4 and ran vgscan and got:
> > 
> > segmentation fault
> > 
> > So I went about investigating as to whether I could get more info than
> > that.....
> > 
> > vgscan -d >& vgscan.log generated the textfile vgscan1.txt I am
> > attaching to this email...hopefully it sheds some light (?)
> 
> Looks like you have devfs configured but not mounted.  You really need to
> mount devfs before running vgscan.  Also, you are far better off to not
> use devfs and LVM at the same time.
> 
> Granted, this is no reason for vgscan to segfault, but it may fix your
> problem.

Yep ;-)

Did somebody find the reason why it segfaults already and has
the finger pointing to the code location?

> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> -- 
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