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

[Glenn Shannon]

"Heinz J. Mauelshagen" wrote:

> 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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I don't know what was causing the segfault, but I suspect it may have been a bad
compile.

I recompiled all over again and it works now :)

Glenn