[linux-lvm] Hardlock and volume loss ?

[Andreas Dilger]

Richard writes:
> The problem is if I try to make the PV active, it "looses" this information
> and says:
> 
> milita:/etc/lvmconf# vgchange -ay
> vgchange -- ERROR "Invalid argument" activating volume group "media"
> 
> 	I've posted what I thought was relavent to
> 	http://black.hole.org/deadlvm.txt
> 
> 	I'm pretty sure the data is intact, and I hope the lvm can be
> put back together (hopefully so I can still resize/add to it)
> 
> 	Any help would be apprecaited, oh and I'm running todays (12/13th
> March 2001) cvs lvm programs.

In your other posting, you say:

> Any ideas ? the software is:
> Logical Volume Manager 0.9
> Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software  13/11/2000  (IOP 10)

> installed from lvm-0.9-2 via debian apt-get from sistina.com

Which one?  The 0.9 software has bugs that may cause this problem
(missing UUIDs).

Cheers, Andreas
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