From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3AF091E1.D57CEEA4@gecpalau.com> Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 08:01:53 +0900 From: Glenn Shannon MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] New details on VGScan crash on 2.4.4 References: <3AED170B.D5483465@gecpalau.com> <200104301544.JAA10700@lynx.turbolabs.com> <20010502122044.D30791@sistina.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:44:43AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Glenn writes: > > > Well, after much deliberation as to how BADLY I needed a /usr partition > > > under 2.4.4.... > > > > > > I booted it in single-user (blech) under 2.4.4 and ran vgscan and got: > > > > > > segmentation fault > > > > > > So I went about investigating as to whether I could get more info than > > > that..... > > > > > > vgscan -d >& vgscan.log generated the textfile vgscan1.txt I am > > > attaching to this email...hopefully it sheds some light (?) > > > > Looks like you have devfs configured but not mounted. You really need to > > mount devfs before running vgscan. Also, you are far better off to not > > use devfs and LVM at the same time. > > > > Granted, this is no reason for vgscan to segfault, but it may fix your > > problem. > > Yep ;-) > > Did somebody find the reason why it segfaults already and has > the finger pointing to the code location? > > > > > Cheers, Andreas > > -- > > Andreas Dilger TurboLabs filesystem development > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > -- > > 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 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm I don't know what was causing the segfault, but I suspect it may have been a bad compile. I recompiled all over again and it works now :) Glenn