From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199903111628.RAA09179@e35.msede.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:38:30 -0500 From: "Verloove, Olivier" Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] Bonehead problem MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@msede.com In fact, I didn't have LVM 0.5 compiled on this system. The problem was due to the device file /dev/lvm missing. And thanks for the md[4-15] remark. I'm on RH5.2 and it was the cause of vgscan hanging the system (see other message). Olivier > ---------- > From: > Steve_J_Brueggeman@notes.seagate.com[SMTP:Steve_J_Brueggeman@notes.seagate > .com] > Sent: Thursday, 11 Mar, 1999 16:08 > To: linux-lvm@msede.com > Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] Bonehead problem > > > It sounds to me like you've got old modules hanging around as left-overs. > Did you build LVM 0.5 with the same kernel version? (2.2.2 presumably). > If > so, did you clear out your old modules directory before you rebuilt the > kernel with LVM 0.6? Are you using modversions when you build the > kernel/modules? > > I've also noticed that vgscan will cause the kernel will complain about > not > being able to find some block devices that I have not compiled into > modules, or the kernel. This doesn't sound like your problem though. > > I've also had a problem when vgscan ran, because of a bug in the md > driver. > I run RedHat 5.2, and the default installation created /dev/md0 through > /dev/md15, but the default md driver is compiled to handle only 4 md > devices (#define MAX_MD_DEV 4), and because of a bug in the md_open() > (uses [minor] without checking minor is less than MAX_MD_DEV), my kernel > would crash when vgscan tried to check /dev/md6 or so. I just rm'd > /dev/md[4-9] /dev/md1[0-5] to not cause the problem. I don't think this > is your problem either, but thought you might like to know. > > Steve Brueggeman > (All opinions are my own, and in no way reflect those of my employer). > (<--legal-crud) > > > > > >