From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Urgent, Please help LVM-krash Message-ID: <20011217122223.A28720@sistina.com> References: <1008250625.4350.5.camel@detrius> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1008250625.4350.5.camel@detrius>; from Erik.Bagfors@ardendo.se on Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:37:04PM +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Date: Mon Dec 17 05:22:02 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:37:04PM +0100, Erik B=E5gfors wrote: > Hi all! >=20 > Yesterday I krashed my lvm. This is the first time I'm having real > problems with it. >=20 > This is what happened. >=20 > I was going to add a new lv and used the lvcreate-command as usual.=20 > This time I forgot the -n switch and when I realized that I hit ctrl-c.. > BAD idea! Erik, that's actually starneg, because the tools intercept ctrl-c and the like = :-( >=20 > Now my vg is gone. I can't get it back whatever I try. Any help would > be VERY appreciated. >=20 > A vgscan just sais "no volume groups found" or something like that.=20 > doing a pvdisplay on the pv's in my vg gives me that they should be in > "diskvg" (which is correct). I've tried doing vgcfgrestore from the > backups in /etc/lvmconf but that doesn't help. vgscan still doesn't > find it. Did you run "pvcreate -ff" on all of your PVs belonging to diskvg *before= * you run vgcfgrestore on all of them? vgscan afetrwards. >=20 > I looked at the HOWTO and found a program named uuid_fixer that looked > like it could solve the problem but it died with an "illegal > instruction" regardless of if I used the precompiled version or compile= d > it myself. >=20 > This is on a mandrake 8.1-box with lvm, xfs, reiserfs and devfs so ther= e > are alot of things to think about. >=20 > When doing stuff I did the following first: > reboot into single user, remount / rw, mount /proc, restore some > standar-stuff into /dev, and start devfsd >=20 > After that I tried vgcfgrestore, vgscan, uuid_fixer and just about > everything I could think or. I think it was just the lack of pvcreate before vgcfgrestore. >=20 > Please please please help me. Can anyone solve this. There are over 6= 0 > GB of stuff on this computer and it needs to work TODAY :( >=20 > /Erik >=20 > --=20 > Erik B=E5gfors | http://www.ardendo.se/ > Erik.Bagfors@ardendo.se | GSM +46 733 279 273 > fingerprint: 6666 A85B 95D3 D26B 296B 6C60 4F32 2C0B 693D 6E32 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > 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 --=20 Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-= =3D-=3D-