From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgchange -- ERROR "parameter error" Message-ID: <20021105150300.C27825@sistina.com> References: <20021101201601.61173.qmail@web14005.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021101201601.61173.qmail@web14005.mail.yahoo.com>; from gayatri_prabhu@yahoo.com on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:16:01PM -0800 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 Nov 5 08:08:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Gayatri, this looks like a bad snapshot exception table. Install LVM 1.0.6 which is able to drop the bad snapshot. On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:16:01PM -0800, Gayatri Prabhu wrote: > Hi, > > I read a few emails on this mailing list with the same > problem. I'm using LVM version 1.0.1-rc4, kernel > 2.4.7, Redhat 7.2. I've been unable to activate a VG > since yesterday. I've been trying to recover data from > the VG using the "pvcreate, vgcfgrestore, vgscan, > vgchange" procedure given as a solution to this > problem. I still get the following error: > vgchange -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up > snapshot copy on write exception table for > "/dev/vgtest/snap.02" > > I've tried using all the old config files for this VG > in /etc/lvmconf, but even the oldest file has the > "messy" snapshot since the snapshot creation was being > done as part of an hourly cron job. > > I would appreciate it if you could let me know whether > there is any other way to still recover the data on > the disk ? Also, is there a later version of LVM in > which this problem has been fixed ? > > Thanks, > Gayatri > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now > http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-