From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fentible.pjc.net (vpn-4-31.stuttgart.redhat.com [10.32.4.31]) by pobox.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j9K9aNM0000535 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:36:23 +0100 Received: from jeltz.pjc.net ([192.168.1.2]) by fentible.pjc.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESWqV-00089p-Oh for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:36:23 +0100 Message-ID: <43576516.2050606@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:36:22 +0100 From: Patrick Caulfield MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2 problems!! References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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" To: LVM general discussion and development Caligiuri, Marco Ernesto wrote: > Hi to all...., > I'm Marco an italian user of RedHat Enterprise 4 , i have this kind of problems: > I must install GFS on a disk partition, non root-partition, it is /dev/sdc1 . Before to make a GFS filesystem...i need to create a volume with LVM2. > Id of partition is 8e (linux LVM) but when i excute the command : > pvcreate /dev/sdc or pvcreate /dev/sdc1 and any other command of lvm (vgcreate...lvcreate....) i receive always the same error: > > connect() failed on local socket: Connection refused > Locking type 2 initialisation failed. > > why?? Anyone can help me? That indicates that you have cluster locking enabled but that the cluster LVM daemon (clvmd) is not running. -- patrick