From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [10.32.10.85] (vpn-10-85.str.redhat.com [10.32.10.85]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n18EBR24015449 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 09:11:27 -0500 Message-ID: <498EE80D.3090307@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:11:25 +0100 From: Milan Broz MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problems running my home-built LVM2 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 Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm trying to use LVM2 on a small MIPS machine. This machine uses > uClibc-0.9.29 with Linux-2.6.25.20 and has limited RAM and CPU power, > but does come with a 1TB drive which I'd rather manage with LVM. > I had no particular problems building the latest version of LVM2 > for it. And as far as I can tell, it's not fully broken, > but it's unusable: every run of `lvm' gives different results. > E.g. `lvm pvs' sometimes gives the expected output, sometimes lists > nothing at all, sometimes complains about missing volume groups, > sometimes "Incorrect metadata area header checksum" [as mentioned in an > earlier message on this list, incidentally]. I guess that using uClibc is the problem. Can you try to link it to standard glibc (if possible; you can try to use static build also)? (Just to test that using uClibc is the problem or not.) > Then I installed Debian in a chroot, and Debian's 2.02.39 version of > `lvm' works just fine. That version uses glibc, right? Milan -- mbroz@redhat.com