[linux-lvm] lvcreate gives 'device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument'
Jonathan E Brassow
jbrassow at redhat.com
Mon Oct 30 16:40:06 UTC 2006
It appears to me that somehow the device-mapper device was created, but
the table has not yet been loaded.
While this is the case, you will not be able to create an LV of the
same name. (It will always give you the "device-mapper: reload ioctl
failed:..." error.)
If you reboot the machine does the "maingroup-dvd:" still show up from
'dmsetup table'?
Also, after a reboot, be sure to run 'pvmove --abort'.
Once you've canceled the pvmove successfully, I would do a 'dmsetup
remove maingroup-dvd; and try the 'lvcreate -L 15G -n dvd maingroup'
again.
brassow
On Oct 28, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Matt McHenry wrote:
>
> [2nd try sending; apologies if duplicate]
>
> I'm running lvm2 under gentoo, and I'm getting this error when I
> try to create a new logical volume:
>
> # lvcreate -L 15G -n dvd maingroup
> /dev/cdrom: open failed: Read-only file system
> Attempt to close device '/dev/cdrom' which is not open.
> device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> Failed to activate new LV.
>
> The new vg shows up in only one of two places under /dev:
>
> # ls /dev/maingroup/
> c-p capture gen-website home music opt swap1 swap2 tmp usr
> var
>
> # ls /dev/mapper/
> control maingroup-gen--website maingroup-swap1
> maingroup-var
> maingroup-c--p maingroup-home maingroup-swap2
> maingroup-capture maingroup-music maingroup-tmp
> maingroup-dvd maingroup-opt maingroup-usr
>
> And I can't create a file system on it:
>
> # mke2fs -j /dev/mapper/maingroup-dvd
> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified,
> or
> partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to
> a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to
> reboot
> to re-read your partition table.
>
> I found this mailing list post
> [http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2006-April/msg00047.html]
> and thought that maybe one of my pvs was bad, so I tried to add a new
> pv (sda12) and migrate off of the most-recently-added one (sda11), but
> the 'pvmove' command gave a similar error and said to run 'pvmove
> --abort'. But that just hung. I tried to shut down in order to abort
> it, but that hung 'unmounting local filesystems'. When I forced a
> reboot, another of my volumes (named gen-website) seemed to have been
> lost.
>
> My first try sending this message included a level 7 log file as an
> attachment. I think the mailing list may have rejected the message
> because it was too big (262k), so I'm excluding it for now. Below are
> some more details on my setup. Forgive me if there's extraneous stuff
> here, but I want to try to provide as much detail as necessary; if
> there's any more info that would be useful, please let me know.
>
> # uname -a
> Linux localhost 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 13 22:40:49 EDT
> 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux
>
> # lvm version
> LVM version: 2.02.06 (2006-05-12)
> Library version: 1.02.07 (2006-05-11)
> Driver version: 4.4.0
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 17 136521 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 18 34 136552+ da Non-FS data
> /dev/sda3 35 66 257040 da Non-FS data
> /dev/sda4 67 38913 312038527+ 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 67 1312 10008463+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 1313 3803 20008926 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda7 3804 8784 40009851 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda8 8785 18745 80011701 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda9 18746 28706 80011701 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda10 28707 33687 40009851 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda11 33688 36178 20008926 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda12 36179 38668 20000893+ 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda13 38669 38913 1967931 83 Linux
>
> # pvs
> /dev/cdrom: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
> /dev/sda10 maingroup lvm2 a- 38.15G 516.00M
> /dev/sda11 maingroup lvm2 a- 38.15G 23.15G
> /dev/sda12 maingroup lvm2 a- 19.07G 4.07G
> /dev/sda6 maingroup lvm2 a- 19.08G 0
> /dev/sda7 maingroup lvm2 a- 38.15G 0
> /dev/sda8 maingroup lvm2 a- 76.30G 0
> /dev/sda9 maingroup lvm2 a- 76.30G 0
>
> # vgs
> /dev/cdrom: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
> VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
> maingroup 7 12 0 wz--n- 305.21G 27.73G
>
> # lvs
> /dev/cdrom: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
> LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy%
> c-p maingroup -wi-a- 4.00G
> capture maingroup -wi-ao 68.00G
> gen-website maingroup -wI-d- 15.00G
> home maingroup -wi-ao 110.00G
> music maingroup -wi-ao 30.00G
> opt maingroup -wi-ao 4.00G
> swap1 maingroup -wi-ao 1.00G
> swap2 maingroup -wi-ao 1.00G
> tmp maingroup -wi-ao 2.00G
> usr maingroup -wi-ao 20.00G
> var maingroup -wi-ao 7.49G
>
> # dmsetup table
> maingroup-tmp: 0 4194304 linear 8:8 154018176
> maingroup-c--p: 0 8388608 linear 8:7 47980928
> maingroup-capture: 0 23642112 linear 8:7 56369536
> maingroup-capture: 23642112 40009728 linear 8:6 384
> maingroup-capture: 63651840 78954496 linear 8:10 384
> maingroup-usr: 0 19996672 linear 8:9 73400704
> maingroup-usr: 19996672 974848 linear 8:8 150946176
> maingroup-usr: 20971520 3891200 linear 8:8 48619904
> maingroup-usr: 24862720 7708672 linear 8:8 384
> maingroup-usr: 32571392 9371648 linear 8:8 52511104
> maingroup-var: 0 10485760 linear 8:9 62914944
> maingroup-var: 10485760 5218304 linear 8:8 145727872
> maingroup-gen--website:
> maingroup-music: 0 1810432 linear 8:8 158212480
> maingroup-music: 1810432 17317888 linear 8:9 142705024
> maingroup-music: 19128320 43786240 linear 8:7 384
> maingroup-swap2: 0 2097152 linear 8:7 45883776
> maingroup-opt: 0 2097152 linear 8:8 151921024
> maingroup-opt: 2097152 6291456 linear 8:8 42328448
> maingroup-dvd:
> maingroup-swap1: 0 2097152 linear 8:7 43786624
> maingroup-pvmove0:
> maingroup-home: 0 62914560 linear 8:9 384
> maingroup-home: 62914560 29310976 linear 8:9 113394048
> maingroup-home: 92225536 19996672 linear 8:9 93397376
> maingroup-home: 112222208 34619392 linear 8:8 7709056
> maingroup-home: 146841600 83845120 linear 8:8 61882752
>
> ----------------------
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> http://www.speakeasy.org/~jerith/
> jerith at speakeasy.org
> be052 at scn.org
>
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