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From: Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] HELP: vgscan segfaults
Date: Wed Jan 29 10:10:01 2003	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030129160958.GG802@tykepenguin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030129155936.GA2428@elrond.lohmann-services.de>

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:59:36PM +0100, Peter Lohmann wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I know... but still:
> 
> --> vgchange -ay myvg
> vgchange -- volume group "myvg" does not exist
> 
> Same with vgchange -ay
> 
> :-(

Looks like the segfaulting vgscan started to write the metadata backups. See of
you can find valid ones in /etc/lvmtab and restore them using vgcfgrestore.

OR it might be as easy as creating a new /etc/lvmtab with "myvg\0" in it and
retrying vgchange.
-- 

patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-29 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-29  9:13 [linux-lvm] HELP: vgscan segfaults Peter Lohmann
2003-01-29  9:19 ` Patrick Caulfield
2003-01-29  9:33   ` Peter Lohmann
2003-01-29  9:43     ` Patrick Caulfield
2003-01-29 10:00       ` Peter Lohmann
2003-01-29 10:10         ` Patrick Caulfield [this message]
2003-01-30  3:35           ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2003-02-04  8:06           ` [linux-lvm] lvm and fai Sébastien GALLET
2003-02-04  8:26             ` Patrick Caulfield
2003-02-26  8:17 ` [linux-lvm] HELP: vgscan segfaults Terje Kvernes

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