[linux-lvm] vgscan errors, segmentation faults

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Florian,

please put together all your vg01.conf* metadata archives *and*
the actual metadata on all devices retrieved with

dd if=/dev/PV of=PV.vgda bs=1k count=4k

(replace PV by hda2 etc. running that command on all PVs)
in a "tar Icf" created archive for further investigation.

Send that to me attached via email ASAP because I'll be leaving for a
vacation trip tonight and can't help you before after Easter again.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:49:27PM +0100, Florian Hinzmann wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am desperate. I can't access my LVs at all currently.
> vgscan and vgcfgrestore say something about
> "only found 0 of x LEs for LV foo" and then they die
> with a segmentation fault.
> 
> "vgchange -ay" does the same of course ..
> 
> 
> The box with that problem is an ordinary PC running
> Debian Linux (unstable/sid).
> 
> I am trying to solve this right now. I will check for replies
> to this mail (list and private) regularily. I am eager to 
> help debugging this; giving more information or doing
> things someone wants me to try. 
> Short: Please help me, I will do whatever I can to help.  ;)
> 
> 
> I will now try to remember as much as possible of
> what happened and what I did:
> 
> - I started to play around with LVM (v1.0.1, Debian package) with 
>   a stock 2.4.17 kernel (compiled by myself).
> - I had a volume group spread across several partitions 
>   (one per physical harddisk).
> - I added and removed PVs to my VG and resized some LVs.
> - Later I had two VGs and I was shifting them around quite
>   heavily.
> - Later I merged that two groups.
> 
> A short time after that action the problems began. I don't remember
> my actions exactly. I think I had LVs with equal names inside both
> VGs. I did some moving of PEs, I renamed at least one LV and at some
> point I tried to merge both VGs.
> 
> If I remember that correctly vgmerge worked fine, but I had some
> problems afterwards. I am not able to recollect all the steps I perfomed.
> 
> I am sure activating did not work at some point and vgscan did not 
> display my new VG correctly. The only way I found to mount my LVs 
> was calling 
> "vgcfgrestore -f foo/vg01.conf /dev/hda2" and
> "vgcfgrestore -f foo/vg01.conf /dev/hdb1" and 
> _not_ calling any scan programs afterwards. 
> 
> Especially vgscan messed up my setup. I remember getting contradictory 
> messages about to which VG /dev/hdb1 belongs while trying to 
> solve that. 
> 
> Whatever, I was able to use my LVs if I wrote the metadata using
> vgcfgrestore. And calling vgscan was a sure way to make my LVs not
> working.
> 
> 
> I thought the new version might solve this for me and that box
> is running with lvm-1.1rc1 (again Debian package) + kernel 2.4.18 + 
> linux-2.4.18-VFS-lock.patch + lvm-1.1-rc1-2.4.18.patch.
> 
> But now vgscan and vgcfgrestore segfault like I did
> write above.
> 
> 
> What can I try? What information may I provide?
> 
> Please help!
> 
> 
>   TIA
>    Florian Hinzmann
> 
> 
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