From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problems adding and moving disk. Message-ID: <20021024092512.A29870@sistina.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from kalle@idlar.nu on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:19:16AM +0200 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: Thu Oct 24 02:28:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:19:16AM +0200, kalle@idlar.nu wrote: > Hello! > > After installing a new disk and moving one other disk from master to slave I cant get my VG back online. Im running 2.4.19 with the 1.0.5 tools > > When vgchange -ay runs at boot up I get this error: > > Trying to vfree() bad address (40176008) > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c > printing eip: > c0125b04 > *pde = 00000000 > Oops: 0000 > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted > EFLAGS: 00010006 > eax: 00c61054 ebx: 0805f1e8 ecx: 00000000 edx: c100001c > esi: 00000000 edi: 00000206 ebp: cef85000 esp: cf053b84 > ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 > Process vgchange (pid: 127, stackpage=cf053000) > Stack: cef850c0 0805f1e8 00042f40 cef85000 d084a186 0805f1e8 00000000 cef85000 > cf052000 00000000 cef854c4 00000000 000042f5 d0849345 00000000 00000000 > 00000000 fffffffa 00000000 cef858f8 4004fe0a 00000000 d0848c2d 00000000 > Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] > [] [] [] [] [] [] > [] [] [] [] [] [] > [] [] [] [] [] [] > [] [] [] [] [] [] > [] [] [] [] [] [] > > Code: 2b 59 0c 89 d8 31 d2 f7 76 18 89 c3 8b 41 14 89 44 99 18 89 > > > I tried running a vgscan -d and I got this: > > > <1> lvm_get_iop_version -- CALLED > <22> lvm_check_special -- CALLED > <22> lvm_check_special -- LEAVING > <1> lvm_get_iop_version -- AFTER ioctl ret: 0 > <1> lvm_get_iop_version -- LEAVING with ret: 10 > <1> lvm_lock -- CALLED > <22> lvm_check_special -- CALLED > <22> lvm_check_special -- LEAVING > > ..and it hangs there > > I managed to get everything back online if I removed the new disk and moved the otherone back from slave to master. > > Does anyone know what might be causing this? Kalle, that sounds like a hardware fight at first glance. Are cabling and master/slave settings all right? Does your BIOS autodetect the disks fine? Run the oops through ksymoops to make any sense out of it. > > > /Kalle > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-