[linux-lvm] ERROR: VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NOT consistent

Micah Anderson micah at riseup.net
Wed Mar 3 01:10:05 UTC 2004


Additional information... I removed the webvg01 group by trashing the
information at the beginning of the disk (it had nothing in it). I
thought it might have been the problem. But it is still there... any
ideas?

micah

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Micah Anderson wrote:

> When I try to run vgdisplay, I get this error:
> 
> vgdisplay -- ERROR: VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NOT consistent;
> please run vgscan
> 
> so, I run vgscan:
> 
> vgscan                                                       
> vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> vgscan -- found active volume group "rootvg"
> vgscan -- found active volume group "webvg01"
> vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
> vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your
> volume groups
> 
> then vgdisplay:
> 
> vgdisplay -- ERROR: VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NOT consistent;
> please run vgscan
> 
> lvscan -- ERROR: VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NOT consistent; 
>                please run vgscan
> 
> pvscan looks normal, tried doing pvscan, then vgscan/lvscan again, but
> got the same thing. I rebooted the machine, same thing. I removed
> webvg01 (it was empty), and redid things, same thing. I tried:
> 
> mv /etc/lvmtab /tmp
> pvscan
> vgscan
> vgdisplay
> 
> same problem....
> 
> This is debian stable, using kernel 2.4.22 LVM1, things seem to be
> working fine otherwise...
> 
> Thanks,
> micah
> 
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