[linux-lvm] Re: PV segments corrupted in vg1 : LVM corrupted

[Jeff Ewing]

The server was running kernel 2.4.27+lvm1 until one month ago. Was upgraded
to 2.6.8+lvm2 and running and rebooted several times since.
> 
> This is an lvm1 file - all lvm2 files are in /etc/lvm/
>  
The output from "vgcfgrestore vg1" is 
  PV /dev/md1 is a different format (seqno lvm1)
  Restore failed.

> > 2. What is the VG free count and how can it be reset to 0?
> > 
> > 3. What other tools available to fix broken lvm.
> 
> You could try going back to an older version of the lvm2 tools and see if
> it fixes things.
Without /var it is a little tricky to downgrade the packages(package
lists etc are missing). Perhaps install on another server and copy
over (ssh fails but nfs is working).

Thank you