[linux-lvm] lvm upgrade problems.

jason at monsterjam.org jason at monsterjam.org
Wed May 23 00:51:08 UTC 2007


hey list. Im running 
[root at tf2 ~]# uname -a
Linux tf2.localdomain 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 17:03:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 
GNU/Linux
[root at tf2 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
[root at tf2 ~]# 

and I have a lvm volume created on a GFS formatted drive that I cant see anymore..

[root at tf2 ~]# vgscan
  connect() failed on local socket: Connection refused
  connect() failed on local socket: Connection refused
  WARNING: Falling back to local file-based locking.
  Volume Groups with the clustered attribute will be inaccessible.
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Skipping clustered volume group diskarray
[root at tf2 ~]# pvscan 
  connect() failed on local socket: Connection refused
  connect() failed on local socket: Connection refused
  WARNING: Falling back to local file-based locking.
  Volume Groups with the clustered attribute will be inaccessible.
  PV /dev/sdb1   VG diskarray   lvm2 [136.48 GB / 6.48 GB free]
  Total: 1 [136.48 GB] / in use: 1 [136.48 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]
[root at tf2 ~]#

whats more, the device name used to be 
/dev/diskarray/lv1
now, all I see is 

[root at tf2 ~]# ls -al /dev/disk/by-path/*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  9 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-ide-0:0 -> ../../hda
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  9 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0 -> 
../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0-part1 -> 
../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0-part2 -> 
../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0-part3 -> 
../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0-part4 -> 
../../sda4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0-part5 -> 
../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0-part6 -> 
../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0-part7 -> 
../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0-part8 -> 
../../sda8
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:0e.0-scsi-0:1:0:0-part9 -> 
../../sda9
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  9 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:03:0b.0-scsi-0:2:0:0 -> 
../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 May 22 15:34 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:03:0b.0-scsi-0:2:0:0-part1 -> 
../../sdb1
[root at tf2 ~]# 


/dev/sdb1 is my disk array..

any ideas?

Jason





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