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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Matthew Gabeler-Lee <cheetah@fastcat.org>
Cc: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>,
	597563@bugs.debian.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug#597563: grub-common: grub-probe segfaults scanning lvm devices
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:29:17 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110110092917.6c230326@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2A32F6.4050304@fastcat.org>

On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:13:10 -0500 Matthew Gabeler-Lee <cheetah@fastcat.org>
wrote:

> On 1/9/2011 16:57, NeilBrown wrote:
> > Simply running
> >     mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb
> >
> > should fix it.
> Well, that doesn't work very well: "mdadm: Couldn't open /dev/sdb for write 
> - not zeroing" ... strace reveals that mdadm is trying to open it O_EXCL, 
> which I presume is why it's not working ... I presume I'd have to reboot to 
> single user mode and stop the LVM and possibly MD stuff in order for that to 
> work, which might then require booting from a rescue cd to do it.

Sorry, I forgot that the device would be in use.
In that case

   mdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sdb

would have done the trick.  But you found another way which worked just as
well.

NeilBrown


      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-09 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100920202854.27101.8288.reportbug@cheetah.fastcat.org>
     [not found] ` <4D274FF9.8010004@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101072241560.25170@cheetah.fastcat.org>
2011-01-08 12:41     ` Bug#597563: grub-common: grub-probe segfaults scanning lvm devices Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-08 22:53       ` Matthew Gabeler-Lee
2011-01-08 23:34         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-08 23:38           ` Matthew Gabeler-Lee
2011-01-08 23:55             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-09  3:09               ` Matthew Gabeler-Lee
2011-01-09 20:55         ` NeilBrown
2011-01-09 21:32           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-09 21:57             ` NeilBrown
2011-01-09 22:13               ` Matthew Gabeler-Lee
2011-01-09 22:29                 ` NeilBrown [this message]

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