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From: "Sebastian Wormser" <sebastian.wormser@gmail.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Unable to import exported VG
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:29:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bf2e7940610280229y5605663frf1ff006adbdd091b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)


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Hi,

I have a problem with importing an exported Volume Group. Hopefully you can
help me with this.

Here's the error message:

matrix:/tmp # vgimport -v -f vgData /dev/hdb1
vgimport -- locking logical volume manager
vgimport -- checking volume group name
vgimport -- checking volume group "vgData" existence
vgimport -- trying to read physical volume
vgimport -- checking for duplicate physical volumes
vgimport -- checking physical volume name "/dev/hdb1"
vgimport -- reading data of physical volume "/dev/hdb1" from disk
vgimport -- checking for exported physical volume "/dev/hdb1"
vgimport -- checking consistency of physical volume "/dev/hdb1"
vgimport -- reallocating memory
vgimport -- reading exported volume group data  of "vgData" from disk(s)
vgimport -- ERROR "lv_read_all_lv(): number of LV" reading data of volume
group "vgData"


Background Information:

The power supply of my PC broke. After replacing it, the system would not
boot, so I tried different
things to recover. One of these things was booting Knoppix. This worked only
after I removed an
apparently broken USB card. I was stupid enough to try and mount the VG
within Knoppix. It did
not work, but I issued the vgexport command for no real reason *sigh*
After that I bootet my normal system (see below) and was unable to mount or
import the VG.


Some more info on the system:

matrix:/tmp # uname -a
Linux matrix 2.4.21-273-athlon #1 Mon Jan 17 13:03:46 UTC 2005 i686 athlon
i386 GNU/Linux

matrix:/tmp # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SuSE Linux 9.0 (i586)
VERSION = 9.0

matrix:/tmp # vgdisplay --version
vgdisplay: Logical Volume Manager 1.0.7(mp-v6)
Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software  28/03/2003 (IOP 10)

matrix:/tmp # vgscan -v
vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- creating empty "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- scanning for all active volume group(s) first
vgscan -- reading data of volume group "vgDataPV_EXP" from physical
volume(s)
vgscan -- ERROR "lv_read_all_lv(): number of LV" can't get data of volume
group "vgDataPV_EXP" 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
group

matrix:/tmp # pvscan -v
pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- walking through all physical volumes found
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdb1"  is in EXPORTED VG "vgData" [186.30 GB /
42.81 GB free]
pvscan -- total: 1 [186.31 GB] / in use: 1 [186.31 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]

matrix:/tmp # pvdata -PP /dev/hdb1
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name               /dev/hdb1
VG Name               vgDataPV_EXP
PV Size               186.31 GB [390716864 secs] / NOT usable 4.31 MB [LVM:
310 KB]
PV#                   1
PV Status             NOT available
Allocatable           yes
Cur LV                6
PE Size (KByte)       4096
Total PE              47693
Free PE               10960
Allocated PE          36733
PV UUID               6COP7v-pdrO-5NDv-K7ib-12DB-e1IF-oXL4Zf
pv_dev                   0:0
system_id                PV_EXPKnoppix1155900061
pv_on_disk.base          0
pv_on_disk.size          1024
vg_on_disk.base          4096
vg_on_disk.size          4096
pv_uuidlist_on_disk.base 8192
pv_uuidlist_on_disk.size 32768
lv_on_disk.base          40960
lv_on_disk.size          83968
pe_on_disk.base          126976
pe_on_disk.size          4395008

matrix:~ # ls -l /etc/lvmconf/
total 6428
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          360 Nov 27  2005 .
drwxr-xr-x   77 root     root         8000 Oct 23 00:28 ..
-rw-r-----    1 root     root       926764 Nov 27  2005 vgData.conf
-rw-r-----    1 root     root       906284 Oct 10  2005 vgData.conf.1.old
-rw-r-----    1 root     root       885804 Feb  4  2005 vgData.conf.2.old
-rw-r-----    1 root     root       803884 Sep 29  2004 vgData.conf.3.old
-rw-r-----    1 root     root       783404 Sep 25  2004 vgData.conf.4.old
-rw-r-----    1 root     root       762924 Sep 18  2004 vgData.conf.5.old
-rw-r-----    1 root     root       760920 Sep 10  2004 vgData.conf.6.old
-rw-r-----    1 root     root       719960 Aug 18  2004 vgData.conf.7.old

matrix:~ # vgcfgrestore -v -n vgData -ll
vgcfgrestore -- INFO: using backup file "/etc/lvmconf/vgData.conf"
vgcfgrestore -- locking logical volume manager
vgcfgrestore -- restoring volume group "vgData" from
"/etc/lvmconf/vgData.conf"
vgcfgrestore -- checking existence of "/etc/lvmconf/vgData.conf"
vgcfgrestore -- reading volume group data for "vgData" from
"/etc/lvmconf/vgData.conf"
vgcfgrestore -- reading physical volume data for "vgData" from
"/etc/lvmconf/vgData.conf"
vgcfgrestore -- reading logical volume data for "vgData" from
"/etc/lvmconf/vgData.conf"
vgcfgrestore -- checking volume group consistency of "vgData"
vgcfgrestore -- checking volume group consistency of "vgData"
--- Volume group ---
VG Name               vgData
VG Access             read/write
VG Status             NOT available/resizable
VG #                  0
MAX LV                256
Cur LV                6
Open LV               0
MAX LV Size           255.99 GB
Max PV                256
Cur PV                1
Act PV                1
VG Size               186.30 GB
PE Size               4 MB
Total PE              47693
Alloc PE / Size       36733 / 143.49 GB
Free  PE / Size       10960 / 42.81 GB
VG UUID               sVZZnE-ctpQ-AlZ6-HTgo-4arL-M6Yj-BKKw62

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/vgData/lvOldHome
VG Name                vgData
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              NOT available
LV #                   1
# open                 0
LV Size                5 GB
Current LE             1280
Allocated LE           1280
Allocation             next free
Read ahead sectors     1024
Block device           58:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/vgData/lvHome
VG Name                vgData
LV Write Access        read/write
vgcfgrestore -- "/etc/lvmtab.d/vgData" doesn't exist

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/vgData/lvMP3
VG Name                vgData
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              NOT available
LV #                   3
# open                 0
LV Size                50 GB
Current LE             12800
Allocated LE           12800
Allocation             next free
Read ahead sectors     1024
Block device           58:1

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/vgData/lvVideo
VG Name                vgData
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              NOT available
LV #                   4
# open                 0
LV Size                45 GB
Current LE             11520
Allocated LE           11520
Allocation             next free
Read ahead sectors     1024
Block device           58:3

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/vgData/lvMatrixHome
VG Name                vgData
LV Write Access        read/write
LV Status              NOT available
LV #                   5
# open                 0
LV Size                29 GB
Current LE             7424
Allocated LE           7424
Allocation             next free
Read ahead sectors     1024
Block device           58:4

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name                /dev/vgData/SnapHome
VG Name                vgData
LV Write Access        read only
vgcfgrestore -- "/etc/lvmtab.d/vgData" doesn't exist


--- Physical volume ---
PV Name               /dev/hdb1
VG Name               vgData
PV Size               186.31 GB [390716864 secs] / NOT usable 4.31 MB [LVM:
314 KB]
PV#                   2
PV Status             available
Allocatable           yes
Cur LV                6
PE Size (KByte)       4096
Total PE              47693
Free PE               10960
Allocated PE          36733
PV UUID               6COP7v-pdrO-5NDv-K7ib-12DB-e1IF-oXL4Zf

matrix:~ # vgdisplay -Dv
vgdisplay -- WARNING: volume group "vgDataPV_EXP" is exported
vgdisplay -- ERROR "lv_read_all_lv(): number of LV" getting data of
"vgDataPV_EXP" from disk(s)


I attached the output of vgscan -d as gzipped file.

Please let me know if you need any more information.
Thank you very much in advance for any help!


cu,

  Sebastian
-- 
Sebastian Wormser
If you gotta be dumb, you gotta be tough.

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