You need to start clvmd. Robert Gil Linux Systems Administrator American Home Mortgage Phone: 631-622-8410 Cell: 631-827-5775 Fax: 516-495-5861 -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 5:56 PM To: linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: gfs not starting (lvm problem) so I went ahead and updated gulm, lvm2-cluster and GFS to gulm-1.0.10-0.i686.rpm lvm2-cluster-2.02.21-7.el4.i386.rpm GFS-6.1.14-0.i386.rpm and my path to my diskarray is still missing in the dev tree but now... [root@tf2 by-path]# vgdisplay connect() failed on local socket: Connection refused connect() failed on local socket: Connection refused WARNING: Falling back to local file-based locking. Volume Groups with the clustered attribute will be inaccessible. Skipping clustered volume group diskarray [root@tf2 by-path]# any ideas whats missing? Jason On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:16:32PM -0400, jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > hey folks. My 2 node cluster with shared array mounted up with GFS was working fine and dandy.. > I did some up2dates (being careful not to update any kernel packages), > and now, my lvm devices seem to have vanished. > > [root@tf1 ~]# /etc/init.d/gfs start > Mounting GFS filesystems: mount: special device /dev/diskarray/lv1 does not exist > [FAILED] > > [root@tf1 ~]# uname -a > Linux tf1.localdomain 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 25 17:28:02 > EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > [root@tf1 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS > release 4 (Nahant Update 5) > [root@tf1 ~]# > > > any ideas? > > Jason > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- ================================================ | Jason Welsh jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | http://monsterjam.org DSS PGP: 0x5E30CC98 | | gpg key: http://monsterjam.org/gpg/ | ================================================ -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster