[linux-lvm] Re: partition table read incorrectly

[Alan Cox]

> I seem to run into a weird problem. LVM refused to work properly,
> after a "vgscan" command "vgchange -a y" would still complain
> that things weren't consistent and I got a messages about an
> I/O error on 08:11.

Does it complain about wrong block sizes ?

> Interestingly my sdb does not have any partitions since it's one
> big PV, and fdisk agrees with me on that. However the kernel
> seems to thing I do have a partition there and as a result LVM
> seems to get somewhat confused.

The partition code will look for tables. That bit is fine

The exact error would be good too