From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:51:08 +0000 From: Kirth Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Hardlock and volume loss ? Message-ID: <20010314135108.A22081@prodding> References: <20010313020851.A16727@prodding> <200103140019.f2E0JM505949@webber.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200103140019.f2E0JM505949@webber.adilger.int>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:19:22PM -0700 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com I was using 0.9 originally when the machine hardlocked I then upgraded to CVS after reading the mailing lists, this didnt help I spoke to Hans who said go back to original 0.9 and try rebooting and just running vgchange -a y (which fixed my problem, well at least allows me to mount the drive, vgscan etc... still reset the UUID's) I would like to fix the problem fully, so I can carry on using the LVM and expand it, but at least right now I can copy the data off the drive. Regards Richard * Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com) wrote: > Richard writes: > > The problem is if I try to make the PV active, it "looses" this information > > and says: > > > > milita:/etc/lvmconf# vgchange -ay > > vgchange -- ERROR "Invalid argument" activating volume group "media" > > > > I've posted what I thought was relavent to > > http://black.hole.org/deadlvm.txt > > > > I'm pretty sure the data is intact, and I hope the lvm can be > > put back together (hopefully so I can still resize/add to it) > > > > Any help would be apprecaited, oh and I'm running todays (12/13th > > March 2001) cvs lvm programs. > > In your other posting, you say: > > > Any ideas ? the software is: > > Logical Volume Manager 0.9 > > Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 13/11/2000 (IOP 10) > > > installed from lvm-0.9-2 via debian apt-get from sistina.com > > Which one? The 0.9 software has bugs that may cause this problem > (missing UUIDs). > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, > \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm