From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] HELP: vgscan segfaults Message-ID: <20030130103301.C26745@sistina.com> References: <20030129151209.GB2200@elrond.lohmann-services.de> <20030129151819.GE802@tykepenguin.com> <20030129153229.GC2200@elrond.lohmann-services.de> <20030129154207.GF802@tykepenguin.com> <20030129155936.GA2428@elrond.lohmann-services.de> <20030129160958.GG802@tykepenguin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030129160958.GG802@tykepenguin.com>; from caulfield@sistina.com on Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:09:58PM +0000 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: Thu Jan 30 03:35:02 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 04:09:58PM +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > 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. ...plus "mkdir /etc/lvmtab.d;cp /etc/lvmconf/myvg.conf /etc/lvmtab.d/myvg" before the "vgchange -ay". Additionally you need to change the LVM config (i.e. by running "lvchange -pr .." or something) so that the ondisk metadata gets written back to the PVs. > -- > > patrick > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-