From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Caulfield Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] HELP: vgscan segfaults Message-ID: <20030129154207.GF802@tykepenguin.com> References: <20030129151209.GB2200@elrond.lohmann-services.de> <20030129151819.GE802@tykepenguin.com> <20030129153229.GC2200@elrond.lohmann-services.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030129153229.GC2200@elrond.lohmann-services.de> 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: Wed Jan 29 09:43:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:32:29PM +0100, Peter Lohmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:18:19PM +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Peter Lohmann wrote: > > > Hi folks! > > > > > > I cannot access my lv's anymore, because vgscan segfaults. > > > I used Knoppix (2.4.20 Kernel) yesterday - it worked fine. > > > But today, when I try to do a vgscan -v i get the following output: > > > > > > root@tty1[/]# vgscan -v > > > vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" > > > vgscan -- creating empty "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" > > > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > > > vgscan -- scanning for all active volume group(s) first > > > vgscan -- reading data of volume group "myvg" from physical volume(s) > > > Segmentation fault > > > > > > As i said, yesterday it worked fine?!? > > > > > > I'm using debian packages lvm-common 1.5.5 and lvm10 v. 1.0.4-6 > > > > Are there any kernel messages (dmesg) ? > > No :-( If your metadata backups are up-to-date then "vgchange -ay" should activate the volumes regardless. Something must have changed, programs don't just work one day and segv the next without good reason. -- patrick