[linux-lvm] im getting: ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv()

[linux-lvm] im getting: ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv()

[Robin Wenninger]

hi all,
i have a problem with my lvm. i have changed my root distribution, after 
doing this, my lvm doesen't work anymore. i left the lvm-partitions 
untouched, and after installing the kernel-patch and the lvm-tools for me new 
distribution, i tried a vgscan to create a new lvmtab and a lvmtab.d. but i 
get a errormessage:

vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get data 
of volume group "vg01" from physical volume(s)
vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" creating 
"/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
 
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg01"

i dont know what do to

please help me

cu all

p.s. i created my lvm with the v0.8 from the lvm tools, now i try to vgscan 
with the v0.9, can this be the problem?

Re: [linux-lvm] im getting: ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv()

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

Robin,

what was you old distro/kernel version?
What's your new distro/kernel version?

On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 04:13:04PM +0200, Robin Wenninger wrote:
> hi all,
> i have a problem with my lvm. i have changed my root distribution, after 
> doing this, my lvm doesen't work anymore. i left the lvm-partitions 
> untouched, and after installing the kernel-patch and the lvm-tools for me new 
> distribution, i tried a vgscan to create a new lvmtab and a lvmtab.d. but i 
> get a errormessage:
> 
> vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get data 
> of volume group "vg01" from physical volume(s)
> vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" creating 
> "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
>  
> vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg01"
> 
> i dont know what do to
> 
> please help me
> 
> cu all
> 
> p.s. i created my lvm with the v0.8 from the lvm tools, now i try to vgscan 
> with the v0.9, can this be the problem?

It shouldn't but it likely is :-(

Could you send the "dd if=/dev/X ibs=1k count=500 of=PV_N" outputs
of all your PVs of vg01 attached compressed to me directly, please?


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