From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 12:20:44 +0000 From: "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] New details on VGScan crash on 2.4.4 Message-ID: <20010502122044.D30791@sistina.com> References: <3AED170B.D5483465@gecpalau.com> <200104301544.JAA10700@lynx.turbolabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200104301544.JAA10700@lynx.turbolabs.com>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:44:43AM -0600 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:44:43AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Glenn writes: > > Well, after much deliberation as to how BADLY I needed a /usr partition > > under 2.4.4.... > > > > I booted it in single-user (blech) under 2.4.4 and ran vgscan and got: > > > > segmentation fault > > > > So I went about investigating as to whether I could get more info than > > that..... > > > > vgscan -d >& vgscan.log generated the textfile vgscan1.txt I am > > attaching to this email...hopefully it sheds some light (?) > > Looks like you have devfs configured but not mounted. You really need to > mount devfs before running vgscan. Also, you are far better off to not > use devfs and LVM at the same time. > > Granted, this is no reason for vgscan to segfault, but it may fix your > problem. Yep ;-) Did somebody find the reason why it segfaults already and has the finger pointing to the code location? > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger TurboLabs filesystem development > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-