From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6JJ5Ka31878 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:05:20 -0400 Received: from mail-new.rz.uni-ulm.de (mail-new.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.1.1]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6JJ5Je1027083 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:05:19 -0400 Received: from uiuc.edu (phyha9.physics.uiuc.edu [130.126.11.189]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6JJ5Hke017645 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:05:17 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <40FC1B6C.7060302@uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:05:16 -0500 From: Stephanus Fengler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] lvm 1.0.3 kernel panic Reply-To: 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"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Hi experts, I added a new hard disk to my system and created it entirely as a new logical volume. Mounting unmounting everything worked until reboot. It stops now with kerel panic and lines like: (null) -- ERROR 2 writing volume group backup file /etc/lvmtab.d/vg01.tmp vg_cfgbackup.c [line271] vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group vg01 vgscan -- ERROR: lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "vg01" from "/etc/lvmtab" ... Activating volume groups vgchange - no volume groups found I understand the kernel panic if lvm is unable to find the volume group vg01 because that's my root system. But I don't get the first error. I rebooted with my Redhat Installation disk: linux rescue and can activate the volume group by hand and mount the file systems. So it looks to me everything is consistent in the filesystem. So since I am pretty new to lvm, which output do you additional need to help me? Thanks in advance, Stephanus lvmdiskscan: lvmdiskscan -- reading all disks / partitions (this may take a while...) lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hdc [ 232.89 GB] USED LVM whole disk lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda1 [ 2.50 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda2 [ 101.97 MB] Primary LINUX native partition [0x83] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda3 [ 33.67 GB] Primary LVM partition [0x8E] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda4 [ 1019.75 MB] Primary Windows98 extended partition [0x0F] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hda5 [ 1019.72 MB] Extended LINUX swap partition [0x82] lvmdiskscan -- /dev/hdb [ 232.89 GB] USED LVM whole disk lvmdiskscan -- /dev/loop0 [ 59.08 MB] free loop device lvmdiskscan -- 3 disks lvmdiskscan -- 2 whole disks lvmdiskscan -- 1 loop device lvmdiskscan -- 0 multiple devices lvmdiskscan -- 0 network block devices lvmdiskscan -- 5 partitions lvmdiskscan -- 2 LVM physical volume partitions pvscan: pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc" of VG "vg01" [232.88 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda1" of VG "vg01" [2.50 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda3" of VG "vg01" [33.66 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdb" of VG "vg01" [232.88 GB / 0 free] pvscan -- total: 4 [501.94 GB] / in use: 4 [501.94 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]