From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200102152003.f1FK35J30665@webber.adilger.net> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM don't work anymore (wrong version?) In-Reply-To: from Jean-Eric Cuendet at "Feb 15, 2001 11:21:24 am" Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:03:03 -0700 (MST) 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: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Jean-Eric Cuendet writes: > I have this same problem on two of our servers! The 2 runs the same kernel: > 2.4.1 with ACL patch and LVM 0.9.1beta4 > > [root@zorro /root]# pvscan -u > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md6" with UUID > "v7Y8gz-KMXB-d6Iq-Y0U1-iiSo-javD-wOL89P" is associated to an > unknown VG (run vgscan) > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md7" with UUID > "xTl7Nc-6DhQ-KV3c-HHd0-LI50-nQwq-wFBYCG" is associated to an > unknown VG (run vgscan) > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md8" with UUID > "oDXPq6-s9Zn-dOHF-ss8J-Rdxt-jTKT-wFoIGQ" is associated to an > unknown VG (run vgscan) Try running 'pvdata -U' on each of the PV's, and see if there are empty UUID slots on some of them. This is a bug with the old LVM tools. If this is true, you can try to comment out the section in pv_read_all_pv_of_vg which verifies the UUIDs (starts like "if (uuids) {"), and try vgscan again. 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