[linux-lvm] badiane: problem with LVM

[linux-lvm] badiane: problem with LVM

[gdurand]

I have compiled kernel 2.4.12 with LVM enabled on Debian.  Upon reboot and
having created a partition hda5 with cfdisk, I ran pvcreate on /dev/hda5 and
received
malloc error in vg_check_active.c [line 76]
pvcreate -- invalid i/o protocol version

Can someone offer any help?

Let me know if there is any additional information needed.

Badiane

Re: [linux-lvm] badiane: problem with LVM

[José Luis Domingo López]

On Tuesday, 23 October 2001, at 13:18:11 -0400,
gdurand@tekmd.com wrote:

> I have compiled kernel 2.4.12 with LVM enabled on Debian.  Upon reboot and
> having created a partition hda5 with cfdisk, I ran pvcreate on /dev/hda5 and
> received
> malloc error in vg_check_active.c [line 76]
> pvcreate -- invalid i/o protocol version
> 
> Can someone offer any help?
> 
It seems a mismatch between LVM tools and kernel code versions. That is,
vanilla 2.4.12 includes 0.9.1-beta7(ish) as far as I remember, but at
least Potato includes an ancient version of lvm-tools. The protocol used
by the tools to comunicate with the kernel part has changed several times,
and it seems that it is the problem you are having.

I would download the latest LVM tarball from sistina.com, patch the 
kernel and compile the tools as said on the documentation included. This
way, the mismatch won't happen again, and you'll get LVM code you can rely
on (there were some problems with LVM in the past).

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Re: [linux-lvm] badiane: problem with LVM

[gdurand]

I downloaded the deb packages from sistina and installed them on the 3
systems in question.  Upon a reboot, I was able to pvcreate /dev/hda5
successfuly.  Now an interesting thing is that when I cfdisk the partition
type is still unknown on two of the machines.

Do you know why that is?

Badiane

Re: [linux-lvm] badiane: problem with LVM

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:56:26PM -0400, gdurand@tekmd.com wrote:
> I downloaded the deb packages from sistina and installed them on the 3
> systems in question.  Upon a reboot, I was able to pvcreate /dev/hda5
> successfuly.  Now an interesting thing is that when I cfdisk the partition
> type is still unknown on two of the machines.

The recent fdisk code support displaing "Linux LVM partition" rather than
unknown.

> 
> Do you know why that is?
> 
> Badiane
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [linux-lvm] badiane: problem with LVM

[gdurand]

All the my machines have the same sources.list so the have the same
packages.

I don't think that's a problem for the time being.

Badiane