[linux-lvm] Help: ERROR -154

[linux-lvm] Help: ERROR -154

[lars.bensmann]

Hello,

when running vgscan I get the following error message:

vgscan -- ERROR -154: can't get data of volume group "part" from physical
volume(s)
vgscan -- ERROR -154 creating "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"

(I put a complete output of vgscan -d up for download under:
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marc.O.Sandlus/vgscan_debug.gz)

This happened after rebooting the computer a couple of days after
shrinking a LV, renaming it and then creating a new LV with the name
of the old one. I don't know if this has anything to do with this,
but I haven't messed around with LVM otherwise and it ran just fine
for quite some time.

For me it looks like the is some internal counter wrong. I think
it triers to count the LVs and counts 8 somewhere and 9 somewhere
else (9 is the right number).

I'm using the latest Debian Package (0.8i) and I tried several
different kernels (2.2.18, 2.2.17 and 2.2.14).
And I tried it with 2.4.0-test12 and a self compiled 0.8final.

I always get the same results.

Looking forward to any help,
Lars

Re: [linux-lvm] Help: ERROR -154

[Lars Bensmann]

Hello,

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:41:32PM +0100, lars.bensmann@epost.de wrote:
> when running vgscan I get the following error message:
> 
> vgscan -- ERROR -154: can't get data of volume group "part" from physical
> volume(s)
> vgscan -- ERROR -154 creating "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"

sorry for posting to the list and then finding the answer in the archives.

I tried to run vgcfgrestore before posting to the list, but I didn't know
that "/etc/lvmtab" does not exist was not a feature, but a bug. After
touching it and mkdir'ing /etc/lvmtab.d/ it worked OK, although it gave an
error on the first run about not being able to insert the VG into
/etc/lvmtab. But that went away on the second run.

Thanks for LVM which worked perfectly for me (until now :-),
Lars

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