[linux-lvm] vgscan not returning
Ali Zaidi
smaliz at ureach.com
Thu Sep 19 16:15:22 UTC 2002
Hi:
I am a novice with LVM but after going through the man pages and howtos i was
unable to find a solution to my problem. I am hoping one of you might find some
time to point me in the right direction.
I am trying to setup LVM on a RH box. I run vgscan before i can create the
volumes but it never returns. Same thing happens with lvmdiskscan and pvscan.
Here is a -v and -d output of vgscan
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[root at fixx /etc]# vgscan -v
vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- creating empty "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
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The above never returns and i am even unable to kill the process with -9
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[root at fixx /root]# vgscan -d
<1> lvm_get_iop_version -- CALLED
<22> lvm_check_special -- CALLED
<22> lvm_check_special -- LEAVING
<1> lvm_get_iop_version -- AFTER ioctl ret: 0
<1> lvm_get_iop_version -- LEAVING with ret: 10
<1> lvm_lock -- CALLED
<22> lvm_check_special -- CALLED
<22> lvm_check_special -- LEAVING
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The above never returns aswell and i am even unable to kill the process with -9
I only have one 20 Gig drive on the system with the following partition table
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1020 8193118+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1021 2491 11815807+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1021 1148 1028128+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 1149 1187 313236 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda7 1188 1200 104391 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda8 1201 1213 104391 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda9 1214 1226 104391 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda10 1227 1239 104391 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda11 1240 1241 16033+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda12 1242 1254 104391 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda13 1255 1267 104391 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda14 1268 1280 104391 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda15 1281 1293 104391 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda16 1294 2491 9622903+ 8e Linux LVM
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The reason i have so many partitions is as i would be using raw devices for an
oracle database on this system.
I am using LVM 1.0.4 on Kernel 2.4.2-2. I cannot use LVM 1.0.5 as it does not
compile with the above mentioned kernel and the reason i am stuck with this
kernel is because of Oracle support issues.
Any help would be appreciated at this point as i dont know how to move further
on this.
Thanks
Ali
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