From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from o.ww.redhat.com (vpn-4-10.str.redhat.com [10.32.4.10]) by pobox.stuttgart.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l0AH6Ye5001817 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:06:34 +0100 Received: from o.ww.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by o.ww.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l0AH8mAn005786 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:08:48 +0100 Received: (from mauelsha@localhost) by o.ww.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l0AH8mqf005785 for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:08:48 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:08:48 +0100 From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group Message-ID: <20070110170848.GA19858@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: mauelshagen@redhat.com, LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:26:03PM +0300, `VL wrote: > Dear ALL, > > I have a problem with LVM volume(details below) probably after bad shutdown: Do you assume that, because your system died during a running configuration change on "lvm1" ? Are all PVs of "lvm1" accessible ? If so, you need to fetch your most recent valid VG metadata archive (see 'man vgcfgrestore'; option '-ll' to look at archive content) and restore it. 'vgscan ; vgchange -ay' afterwards. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > There are 2 volumes: lvm2 and lvm1 (just names, type is lvm-1). lvm2 is fine > and mounted, > and lvm1 has problems: > > # pvscan > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sda1" of VG "lvm2" [372.56 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdb1" of VG "lvm2" [372.56 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg1" is associated to unknown VG "lvm1" (run > vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdf1" is associated to unknown VG "lvm1" (run > vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdb1" is associated to unknown VG "lvm1" (run > vgscan) > pvscan -- total: 5 [1.36 TB] / in use: 5 [1.36 TB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > # vgscan > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > vgscan -- found active volume group "lvm2" > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of > volume group "lvm1" from physical volume(s) > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume > groups > > ls -l /dev/lvm* > crw-r----- 1 root root 109, 0 2005-03-27 17:11 /dev/lvm > > /dev/lvm1: > total 0 > crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 0 2007-01-05 17:14 group > > /dev/lvm2: > total 0 > crw-r----- 1 root disk 109, 1 2007-01-09 21:22 group > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 58, 1 2007-01-09 21:22 lv2 > > > System description: > > kernel 2.4.31 vanilla > slackware-10.2.0 > lvm-1.0.8-i486-1 > > any help will be greatly appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-