From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200103140019.f2E0JM505949@webber.adilger.int> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Hardlock and volume loss ? In-Reply-To: <20010313020851.A16727@prodding> from Kirth at "Mar 13, 2001 02:08:51 am" Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:19:22 -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 Richard writes: > The problem is if I try to make the PV active, it "looses" this information > and says: > > milita:/etc/lvmconf# vgchange -ay > vgchange -- ERROR "Invalid argument" activating volume group "media" > > I've posted what I thought was relavent to > http://black.hole.org/deadlvm.txt > > I'm pretty sure the data is intact, and I hope the lvm can be > put back together (hopefully so I can still resize/add to it) > > Any help would be apprecaited, oh and I'm running todays (12/13th > March 2001) cvs lvm programs. In your other posting, you say: > Any ideas ? the software is: > Logical Volume Manager 0.9 > Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 13/11/2000 (IOP 10) > installed from lvm-0.9-2 via debian apt-get from sistina.com Which one? The 0.9 software has bugs that may cause this problem (missing UUIDs). 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