From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:48:00 +0200 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvversion failure Message-ID: <20010725214800.D27765@sistina.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from jamesp@foobarhouse.com on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:11:42PM +0100 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 On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:11:42PM +0100, James Pattinson wrote: > Oops - hate to reply to my own message, but I just noticed the -1 in my > pvversion command. To clarify, I get the same behaviour if I use -2 as > well. Yes, I guessed that already. My guess is, that the long device pathes trigger a regex bug we didn't hit during our tests. Could you switch devfs of and retry pvversion in order to work around that assumed flaw? > > James > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, James Pattinson wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Trying to upgrade from beta7 to beta8. I have 2 PVs, neither of which are > > empty, that belong to a single VG, vg00. > > > > When trying to upgrade the PVs to version 2, I get: > > > > ./pvversion -1 /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > > pvversion -- created dummy LV "/dev/vg00/pvversionpart19519" on empty PV > > "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" > > pvversion -- ERROR: pv_display() failed again > > pvversion -- giving up on "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" > > > > [root@greebo tools]# lvmdiskscan | grep LVM > > lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 [ 16.02 GB] > > Primary LVM partition [0x8E] > > lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 [ 16.02 GB] > > Primary LVM partition [0x8E] > > lvmdiskscan -- 2 LVM physical volume partitions > > [root@greebo tools]# > > > > It seems the pvversion program thinks my PV is empty, and tries to create > > a dummy LV on it. But of course it's not empty. > > > > I created my PVs, VG and LVs using beta7 kernel and tools not too long > > ago. Im using devfs as you can see. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > James > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-