From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: 1 May 2001 16:58:55 -0600 Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 16:58:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Todd Underwood Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] odd problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'linux-lvm@sistina.com'" howdy, i'm almost positive (i know... famous last words) that they are up to date, because the same kernel boots with a different root. i lost some files in /etc/ due to stupidity and had to restore them (the wonders of ext2 file undeletion by hand!) but i ran vgck to check volumes and it seems fine. i even copied all of /etc/ over from the working linux root partition to the non-working logical volume and that didn't seem to help. i've run fsck on it to no avail. happy to provide addl info. i'm going to double check that the patches are on the kernel and the kernel is recompiled and the initrd is right and the user tools are right. todd underwood chief technology officer oso grande technologies, inc. todd@osogrande.com On Tue, 1 May 2001, Day, Evan wrote: > Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 15:48:28 -0700 > From: "Day, Evan" > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > To: "'linux-lvm@sistina.com'" > Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] odd problem > > It sounds like the kernel patch revision doesn't match the revision of > the user-level tools - I saw these types of messages when running beta-7 > tools with a stock 2.4.3 kernel. Have you made sure the tools/libraries > on your initrd image are up to date? > > -Evan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Todd Underwood [mailto:todd@osogrande.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 3:36 PM > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: [linux-lvm] odd problem > > > folx, > > i have 2.4.3 with beta-7 patches installed and beta-7 userland tools. i'm > using lvm-initrd with a boot partition on /dev/hda2 and LVM root and other > filesystems on a few scsi disks. all was working well but recently i > needed to reboot (i was unable to increase the size of my / with the > online ext2 tools and it was full--not sure what the error was there, or > whether that is relevant). > > in any case, now i reboot and i get > lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 4004fe0a > vgchange -- volume group "rootvg" successfully activated > > VGS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > change_root: old root has d_count=3 > Trying to unmount old root ... <7>uhci.c: suspect_hd > okay > > a bunch of other stuff > > then: > > Activating swap partitions swapon: /dev/rootvg/swap: Invalid argument > Setting hostname zapata.staff.osogrande.net execvp: No such file or > directory > > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: domainname: command not found > > and so on. looks like nothing's mounted. the same kernel boots fine with > an older root fs on a 'real' partition. > > any suggestions? > > todd underwood > chief technology officer > oso grande technologies, inc. > todd@osogrande.com > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > >