[linux-lvm] lvcreate segfaults

[John Marquart]

Thanks AJ,
	Me and my trusty ddd had figured out the same thing - that an
extra printf inserted into the function fixed it.  It is a darn weird bug
though.
	Thanks for the link - made a much nicer cleaner patch then my
own. :)

-john


On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, AJ Lewis wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:00:25AM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:37:03PM -0500, AJ Lewis wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:32:34PM -0500, John Marquart wrote:
> > > > 	I am running LVM 1.0.1rc2 on  2.4.8 kernel ontop of a IBM
> > > > Serverraid 4Mx RAID5 filesystem.  I am trying to create a new lv using
> > > > "lvcreate -n foo -L 4M rootvg" - however that command insists on giving me
> > > > a segfault.  
> > > 
> > > Here is a patch that should fix this problem.  It has already been applied
> > > to the CVS.  just save this to a file and apply it to the 1.0.1-rc2 source
> > > with the -p0 flag after cd'ing to the 1.0.1-rc2 directory.
> > 
> > I don't think this patch fixes it, it's just a tidy up.
> 
> Hmm...was looking at this:
> http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/lvm-devel/2001-September/000637.html
> 
> Sounded like changing the inlines fixed the seg-fault for this guy.  
> 
> John,
> you could also try the patch referred to from that e-mail, but it doesn't
> sound like it's the same problem i guess...
> 
> Regards,
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