[linux-lvm] vgscan -- no volume groups found

[Jonathan DeHaan]

beta 6 tools vgscan seems to work, and with a beta6 kernel, I am finally
back into my system. However, I cannot mount loop devices. losetup works,
but mount fails with no messages, and it's process cannot be killed even
with kill -9. ps lists it's state as D (uninterruptable sleep). Any ideas?

Jonathan DeHaan
jdehaan at home.com

> > Having successfully installed LVM on /dev/md0 (sd[ab]1)
> including root on
> > LVM, I was finally ready to kill my online backup on /dev/hda6.
> I pvcreated
> > it, vgextended it, and lvextended an lv that needed more room. When I
> > rebooted, however, vgscan cannot find my vg. I am using kernel 2.4.2 and
> > 0.9.1_beta5.
> >
> > I downloaded beta6 tools and created a separate initrd on
> another machine
> > that gives me a bash prompt, but vgscan now complains of invalid i/o
> > protocol v. 11. I did try the UUID trick found in the mailing
> list archives,
> > and I have verified that both my PV's have the correct list of UUIDs in
> > order, but beta5 vgscan still complains of no volume groups found.
>
> Beta5 was a strange beast, and it is the only one with IOP 11.  You need
> to run beta5 tools with a beta5 kernel.  Otherwise, you should run beta6
> tools with beta6 kernel, or beta[234] tools with beta[2346] kernel.
>
> I don't recall which problems were fixed beta5 -> beta6.  Is it possible
> for you to get another kernel (beta6 preferrably) so you can run beta6
> tools?
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
>                  \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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