[linux-lvm] vgscan errors
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Mon Mar 4 17:26:02 UTC 2002
Error 2 is ENOENT (no entry).
Could be a space problem in case / run full.
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:22:10AM -0600, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> I'm getting the following errors when running vgscan from my custom
> rescue CD:
>
> vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> vgscan -- found inactive volume group "first_vg"
> vgscan -- ERROR 2 writing volume group backup file
> /etc/lvmtab.d/first_vg.tmp in vg_cfgbackup.c (line 270)
> vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "first_vg"
>
> Unfortunately, I can't figure out why it couldn't write the backup file.
> The directory is successfully created, but apparently it can't write
> the files there for some reason.
>
> If I do a -v I get a little more info:
>
> vgscan -- storing volume group data of "first_vg" in
> "/etc/lvmtab.d/first_vg.tmp"
> vgscan -- storing physical volume data of "first_vg" in
> "/etc/lvmtab.d/first_vg.tmp"
> vgscan -- storing logical volume data
>
> of "first_vg" in "/etc/lvmtab.d/first_vg.tmp"
>
> vgscan -- ERROR 2 writing volume group backup file
> /etc/lvmtab.d/first_vg.tmp in vg_cfgbackup.c (line 270)
> vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "first_vg"
>
> This is a new machine and all I have done is create the volume group,
> mount it and copy data down to it. I then rebooted and tried to run
> vgscan again to confirm the consistency of what I had done and got the
> above errors. I've done this exact procedure several times before with
> no problems. I'm using LVM 1.0.1 with kernel 2.4.16 patched for XFS.
>
> Is there anything else I can try? Ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kelly
>
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