[linux-lvm] New details on VGScan crash on 2.4.4

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:01:53AM +0900, Glenn Shannon wrote:
> "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:44:43AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > Glenn writes:
> > > > Well, after much deliberation as to how BADLY I needed a /usr partition
> > > > under 2.4.4....
> > > >
> > > > I booted it in single-user (blech) under 2.4.4 and ran vgscan and got:
> > > >
> > > > segmentation fault
> > > >
> > > > So I went about investigating as to whether I could get more info than
> > > > that.....
> > > >
> > > > vgscan -d >& vgscan.log generated the textfile vgscan1.txt I am
> > > > attaching to this email...hopefully it sheds some light (?)
> > >
> > > Looks like you have devfs configured but not mounted.  You really need to
> > > mount devfs before running vgscan.  Also, you are far better off to not
> > > use devfs and LVM at the same time.
> > >
> > > Granted, this is no reason for vgscan to segfault, but it may fix your
> > > problem.
> >
> > Yep ;-)
> >
> > Did somebody find the reason why it segfaults already and has
> > the finger pointing to the code location?
> >
> > >
> > > Cheers, Andreas
> > > --
> > > Andreas Dilger                               TurboLabs filesystem development
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> > Regards,
> > Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
> >
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> I don't know what was causing the segfault, but I suspect it may have been a bad
> compile.
> 
> I recompiled all over again and it works now :)

Self fixing code ;-))
I like that.

> 
> Glenn
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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
Mauelshagen at Sistina.com                           +49 2626 141200
                                                       FAX 924446
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