From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Caulfield Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 0x8004fe97 Message-ID: <20021022114410.GC1154@tykepenguin.com> References: <3DB3BDA4.75B552B6@silicide.dk> <20021021151240.GG838@tykepenguin.com> <3DB537AB.642A6854@silicide.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DB537AB.642A6854@silicide.dk> 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: Date: Tue Oct 22 06:45:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:34:04PM +0200, Jon Bendtsen wrote: > Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > [cut] > > > You really don't want to do that... 1.1 is well broken. > > uhoh, i'm already doing it, not production yet, but soon. > I figured that the latest from oktober 3, 1.1-rc2 would be > good enough. > > > > > and removing those debian packages. > > > > The Debian packages should be fine. Plenty of other people are using them. > > > > Can you tell which command is issued the illegal ioctl ? It could be that the > > LVM device has a wrong major/minor or something else has take the LVM > > major/minor device number, because those are /not/ LVM ioctl numbers. > > More than one. vgchange -a y > lvremove (snapshopts) It does sound a lot like an "odd" lvm toolset (or perhaps library) that's interfering. It's worth checking whicg vgchange (etc) command is being run (ie is there one in /usr/local or /usr/sbin that's earlier in the PATH than the "real" one. Also do "ldd" in the library to see which library is being picked up. patrick