From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: "Jonathan DeHaan" Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] vgscan -- no volume groups found Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 17:06:09 -0400 Message-ID: <005e01c0bd4b$12bdcf40$0400a8c0@ci696011a.lxintn1.ky.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200104042035.f34KZ8M09891@webber.adilger.int> 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com beta 6 tools vgscan seems to work, and with a beta6 kernel, I am finally back into my system. However, I cannot mount loop devices. losetup works, but mount fails with no messages, and it's process cannot be killed even with kill -9. ps lists it's state as D (uninterruptable sleep). Any ideas? Jonathan DeHaan jdehaan@home.com > > Having successfully installed LVM on /dev/md0 (sd[ab]1) > including root on > > LVM, I was finally ready to kill my online backup on /dev/hda6. > I pvcreated > > it, vgextended it, and lvextended an lv that needed more room. When I > > rebooted, however, vgscan cannot find my vg. I am using kernel 2.4.2 and > > 0.9.1_beta5. > > > > I downloaded beta6 tools and created a separate initrd on > another machine > > that gives me a bash prompt, but vgscan now complains of invalid i/o > > protocol v. 11. I did try the UUID trick found in the mailing > list archives, > > and I have verified that both my PV's have the correct list of UUIDs in > > order, but beta5 vgscan still complains of no volume groups found. > > Beta5 was a strange beast, and it is the only one with IOP 11. You need > to run beta5 tools with a beta5 kernel. Otherwise, you should run beta6 > tools with beta6 kernel, or beta[234] tools with beta[2346] kernel. > > I don't recall which problems were fixed beta5 -> beta6. Is it possible > for you to get another kernel (beta6 preferrably) so you can run beta6 > tools? > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, > \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >