[linux-lvm] vgcreate core dumps

Terry Hardie terryh at orcas.net
Wed Dec 29 21:47:40 UTC 1999


On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Robert Haig wrote:

> I'm perplexed.
> 
> here's what happened
> ==========================
> # fdisk /dev/sdb
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 553 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1             1       553   4441941   8e  Unknown
> 
> Command (m for help): q
> 
> # pvcreate /dev/sdb1
> pvcreate -- reinitializing physical volume
> pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created
> 
> # vgcreate test_vg /dev/sdb1
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

See the message I posted about the missing "data = NULL;" - That's the
problem it fixes.

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