From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from reti (vpn50-31.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.31]) by pobox.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2590huq031541 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:00:43 GMT Received: from joe by reti with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AzBDE-00010T-Rb for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:01:44 +0000 From: Joe Thornber Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] linux 2.6.3 -- device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed Message-ID: <20040305090144.GC744@reti> References: <20040305003050.GA4134@yggdrasil.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040305003050.GA4134@yggdrasil.localdomain> Sender: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Mar 5 03:59:01 2004 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:30:51PM -0600, Greg Norris wrote: > When I boot up under 2.6.3 or 2.6.4-rc[12], I get several occurrences > of the message listed below. All of the filesystems are mounted > successfully, however, and I don't notice any problems once it's up. > Is this something I should be concerned about? If so, what do I need > to check? > > kernel: device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed This is a serious error, it means that device mapper was asked to instance a linear mapping across a non-existent device. Could you turn on verbose logging in the LVM2 tools, and try and find out which LV is failing to activate please ? - Joe