[linux-lvm] HELP: vgscan segfaults
Peter Lohmann
listenmann at elrond.lohmann-services.de
Wed Jan 29 10:00:02 UTC 2003
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:42:07PM +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:32:29PM +0100, Peter Lohmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:18:19PM +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Peter Lohmann wrote:
> > > > Hi folks!
> > > >
> > > > I cannot access my lv's anymore, because vgscan segfaults.
> > > > I used Knoppix (2.4.20 Kernel) yesterday - it worked fine.
> > > > But today, when I try to do a vgscan -v i get the following output:
> > > >
> > > > root at tty1[/]# vgscan -v
> > > > vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
> > > > vgscan -- creating empty "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
> > > > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> > > > vgscan -- scanning for all active volume group(s) first
> > > > vgscan -- reading data of volume group "myvg" from physical volume(s)
> > > > Segmentation fault
> > > >
> > > > As i said, yesterday it worked fine?!?
> > > >
> > > > I'm using debian packages lvm-common 1.5.5 and lvm10 v. 1.0.4-6
> > >
> > > Are there any kernel messages (dmesg) ?
> >
> > No :-(
>
> If your metadata backups are up-to-date then "vgchange -ay" should activate the
> volumes regardless. Something must have changed, programs don't just work one
> day and segv the next without good reason.
I know... but still:
--> vgchange -ay myvg
vgchange -- volume group "myvg" does not exist
Same with vgchange -ay
:-(
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