[linux-lvm] vgscan segmentation faults, VG name problems

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Duane,

since you're running 1.0.3 I assume you might be hitting an array derefenerence
bug in the LVM1 library we fixed in 1.0.6.

Please upgrade to 1.0.7 and try again.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:22:59PM -0600, Duane Evenson wrote:
> I'm having troubles and can't find the solution in the HOWTO, or the 
> archived mailing lists articles.
> I installed lvm on an entire hard drive (hde), made one logical group 
> with a logical volume of 100G.
> I mounted to volume, copied files over OK, but vgscan caused 
> segmentation faults.
> I rebooted, hoping that it was a conflict between the kernel info and 
> physical info. Obviously, it wasn't.
> Here are the results of running pvdisplay, pvscan, vgscan, and vgdisplay.
> 
> # pvdisplay /dev/hde -v
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name               /dev/hde
> VG Name               data_group
> PV Size               111.79 GB [234441648 secs] / NOT usable 4.25 MB 
> [LVM: 239
> KB]
> PV#                   1
> PV Status             available
> Allocatable           yes
> Cur LV                1
> PE Size (KByte)       4096
> Total PE              28617
> Free PE               3017
> Allocated PE          25600
> PV UUID               x1l2a2-XUzX-XEjZ-hP3k-qAmo-G5jH-U1z1C8
> 
> pvdisplay -- "/etc/lvmtab.d/data_group" doesn't exist
> 
> # pvscan -v
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- walking through all physical volumes found
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde"  is associated to unknown VG 
> "data_group" (run
> vgscan)
> pvscan -- total: 1 [111.79 GB] / in use: 1 [111.79 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
> 
> # 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...)
> vgscan -- scanning for all active volume group(s) first
> vgscan -- reading data of volume group "data_group" from physical volume(s)
> Segmentation fault
> 
> # vgscan -d
> ...
> <55555> pv_create_name_from_kdev_t -- LEAVING with dev_name: /dev/hde
> <55555> system_id_check_exported -- CALLED
> <55555> system_id_check_exported -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <4444> pv_read -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <4444> vg_copy_from_disk -- CALLED
> <55555> vg_check_vg_disk_t_consistency -- CALLED
> <666666> vg_check_name -- CALLED with VG:
> <7777777> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: ""
> <7777777> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <666666> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0
> <55555> vg_check_vg_disk_t_consistency -- LEAVING with ret: -344
> <4444> vg_copy_from_disk -- LEAVING
> Segmentation fault
> 
> # vgdisplay data_group -h
> Logical Volume Manager 1.0.3
> Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software  19/02/2002 (IOP 10)
> 
> vgdisplay -- display volume group information
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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