[linux-lvm] HELP: vgscan segfaults

Patrick Caulfield caulfield at sistina.com
Wed Jan 29 09:19:01 UTC 2003


On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Peter Lohmann wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I cannot access my lv's anymore, because vgscan segfaults.
> I used Knoppix (2.4.20 Kernel) yesterday - it worked fine.
> But today, when I try to do a vgscan -v i get the following output:
> 
> root at tty1[/]# 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 "myvg" from physical volume(s)
> Segmentation fault
> 
> As i said, yesterday it worked fine?!?
> 
> I'm using debian packages lvm-common 1.5.5 and lvm10 v. 1.0.4-6

Are there any kernel messages (dmesg) ?

patrick





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