[linux-lvm] deadlock on snapshot creation; any way out without a reboot?

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:28:12PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Name             Maj Min Stat Open Targ Event  UUID
> mainvg-admindata 254  42 LIsw    2    1      0 PqzqVKCpoXCXe6QAIW4C32bS66OoLnW4cCHdlPbllQNt50aJANhLrqbjUkK7jCsP

>   LV                    VG     #Seg Attr   LSize   Maj Min KMaj KMin Origin            Snap%  Move Copy%  LV UUID
>   admindata             mainvg    1 -wi-so   5.86G  -1  -1 254  42                                        cCHdlP-bllQ-Nt50-aJAN-hLrq-bjUk-K7jCsP

So admindata has no snapshots, but it is suspended with an 'inactive' table loaded
indicating  some operation got interrupted.

Try:
  lvchange --refresh mainvg/admindata

This should reload 'mainvg-admindata' to match the configuration in the lvm2 metadata.

Alasdair
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