From: Jonathan E Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problem with LVM2 and device-mapper
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:14:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85f72c0fd806dec224faff1ca6dd83a3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1129665057.4262.7.camel@cantrell.patsoffice.com>
After a failed vgchange -ay, what does 'dmsetup ls' report?
I thought I've seen something like this in the past, but it always had
to do with a partial load of a logical volume.
brassow
On Oct 18, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Patrick Lawrence (LVM List) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using CentOS 4 and just did an upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 on my
> x86_64
> home server. After a reboot, one of my vol groups stopped working.
> It's a volume group spread across 2 disks and when I try to activate
> that volgroup I get the following:
>
> <snip>
> [root@hetfield mapper]# vgchange -ay VolGroup02
> device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument
> Couldn't load device 'VolGroup02-DVD'.
> 1 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup02" now active
> <snip>
>
> and the relevant portion of the /var/log/messages has:
>
> <snip>
> Oct 17 08:45:07 hetfield kernel: device-mapper: dm-linear: Device
> lookup
> failed
> Oct 17 08:45:07 hetfield kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to
> table
> <snip>
>
> My other two volgroups are working fine. It's just this third one that
> has problems.
>
> I did quite a bit of googling yesterday, but I didn't come up with much
> although I have to confess that I know jack about the device mapper...
>
> Is there anything I can provide to diagnose the problem further? Since
> CentOS tracks RHEL4 very closely, I suspect this affects RHEL4 as well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pat
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-18 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-18 19:50 [linux-lvm] Problem with LVM2 and device-mapper Patrick Lawrence (LVM List)
2005-10-18 21:14 ` Jonathan E Brassow [this message]
2005-10-18 21:35 ` Patrick Lawrence (LVM List)
2005-10-20 23:20 ` Valery Mitsyn
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