From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200103302127.f2ULRi728029@webber.adilger.int> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgchange -- ERROR: can't get name(s) of physical volumes In-Reply-To: <3AC4EE97.B98BF6A7@literal.si> from Jure Simsic at "Mar 30, 2001 10:37:43 pm" Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:27:43 -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 Jure writes: > at boot I get vgscan detect my VGs (eg. home and lvm-tmp), but then i > get vgchange -ay report the above message: > > vgchange -- ERROR: can't get name(s) of physical volumes > vgchange -- ERROR: Please check, if /proc is mounted > > The curious thing is, that the only devices that the output mentions is > /dev/hdc (by pv_get_size, pv_check_name, lvm_check_chars, pv_check_part > and so), which is in fact my cdrom. No mention of any hda's or hdb's.. You have devfs compiled into the kernel, but not mounted. Look into /proc/partitions to see why it is broken. I would suggest that you remove the devfs configuration from your kernel and recompile. The support for devfs is not super good right now. 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