On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:23:56PM +0200, Stephan Austermuehle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've the same problem. The VG was originally created with LVM 1.0.4,
> then used (and extended) with 1.1rc1. Now I've the problem after
> downgrading to 1.0.4.
>
> # ./vgscan
> vgscan -- ERROR "lv_check_consistency(): LV status" volume group "vg00" is inconsistent
> vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "vg00"
> vgscan -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "vg00" from "/etc/lvmtab"
> vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> vgscan -- found active volume group "vg00"
> vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
> vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group
>
> Stephan
>
yeah, it's a bug in 1.1 which is fixed in the debian patched 1.0.4-4. If you
built from source here's the workaround:
diff -u -r1.4 -r1.4.2.1
--- lv_check_consistency.c 7 Feb 2002 16:19:46 -0000 1.4
+++ lv_check_consistency.c 5 Jun 2002 10:12:01 -0000 1.4.2.1
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@
debug_enter ( "lv_check_consistency -- CALLED\n");
+ /* Don't barf on broken LVM1.1 created metadata */
+ if (lv->lv_status > 2) lv->lv_status = 1;
+
if ( lv == NULL) ret = -LVM_EPARAM;
else if ( lv_check_name ( lv->lv_name) != 0) ret = -LVM_ELV_LVNAME;
else if ( vg_check_name ( lv->vg_name) != 0) ret = -LVM_ELV_VGNAME;
patrick
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