[linux-lvm] Volume group not found on restart

Murthy Kambhampaty Murthy.Kambhampaty at goeci.com
Tue May 14 12:52:10 UTC 2002


I have an unexpected error reading an LV:  

# mount -a
mount: /dev/db_vol/db_dir is not a valid block device

I'd like help recovering the data on the partition. Information about the
circumstance under which I first got the error, and some addtional info are
attached below. The system is a RH7.2 system installed with the XFS1.0.2a
installer and updated to the XFS CVS kernel from April 4. (LVM version in
kernel with LVM tools from lvm-tools-1.0.1rc4-2 rpm).

Thanks for the help,
	Murthy

Addtional information follows:

I have a VG called "db_vol" and an LV within called "db_dir" on a hardware
RAID-5 volume hanging off a Mylex Acceleraid 352 raid controller (linux
DAC960 driver). This volume has been up and functional, with an XFS
filesystem for a while (the last VGDA backup is from March 21). Yesterday, I
added a new RAID set and did a test on the new volume (defined a single
(linux native) primaly partition and XFS filesystem on the partition then
mounted the partition to /mnt/tempmnt) with "time dd=/dev/zero
of=/mnt/tempmnt/mungie.txt bs=512k count=10000". This led to my system
slowing down and at logout I got an error message saying init was spawning
ttys too fast. I power-cycled my machine after a short wait, with gritted
teeth, and on the XFS check message, I chose "yes" to recheck the integrity
of the XFS filesystems. The unexpected error message has been produced since
then. 

vgdisplay output for the volume is:

# /sbin/vgdisplay -d db_vol
<1> lvm_check_kernel_lvmtab_consistency -- CALLED
<22> vg_check_active_all_vg -- CALLED
<333> vg_status_get_count -- CALLED
<333> vg_status_get_count -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<22> vg_check_active_all_vg -- LEAVING with ret: -331  ptr: (null)
<22> lvm_tab_vg_check_exist_all_vg -- CALLED
<333> lvm_tab_read -- CALLED
<333> lvm_tab_read -- LEAVING with ret: 0  data: 804B4A0  size: 1
<22> lvm_tab_vg_check_exist_all_vg -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<1> lvm_check_kernel_lvmtab_consistency -- LEAVING with ret: 1
<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> vg_check_name -- CALLED with VG: db_vol
<22> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "db_vol"
<22> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<1> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<1> lvm_tab_vg_check_exist -- CALLED with vg_name: "db_vol"
<22> vg_check_name -- CALLED with VG: db_vol
<333> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "db_vol"
<333> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<22> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<22> lvm_tab_read -- CALLED
<22> lvm_tab_read -- LEAVING with ret: 0  data: 804B4A0  size: 1
<1> lvm_tab_vg_check_exist -- LEAVING with ret: 0
vgdisplay -- volume group "db_vol" not found


When I check the db_vol.conf file in /etc/lvmconf, I get  "vgcfgrestore --
ERROR: different structure size stored in "/etc/lvmconf/db_vol.conf" than
expected in file vg_cfgrestore.c [line 120]" (full command output below).

/sbin/vgcfgrestore -t -d -n db_vol  -ll
<1> vg_check_name -- CALLED with VG: db_vol
<22> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "db_vol"
<22> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<1> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<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
<1> lvm_lock -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<1> lvm_dont_interrupt -- CALLED
<1> lvm_dont_interrupt -- LEAVING
<1> vg_cfgrestore -- CALLED
<22> vg_check_name -- CALLED with VG: db_vol
<333> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "db_vol"
<333> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<22> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0
vgcfgrestore -- ERROR: different structure size stored in
"/etc/lvmconf/db_vol.conf" than expected in file vg_cfgrestore.c [line 120]
<1> vg_cfgrestore -- LEAVING with ret: -328
<1> lvm_error -- CALLED with: -328
<1> lvm_error -- LEAVING with: "vg_cfgrestore(): read"
vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "vg_cfgrestore(): read" restoring volume group
"db_vol"

<1> lvm_unlock -- CALLED
<1> lvm_unlock -- LEAVING with ret: 0






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