On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0600, Donald Thompson wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:21:52PM -0600, Donald Thompson wrote: > > > > > > That is correct. I boot, vgscan fails (I'm assuming it segfaults but I > > > really can't tell during the normal boot process what actually happened) > > > to detect my VGs, my system goes into a maintenance mode situation since > > > my /usr is on an LV, I login and run lsmod and absolutely no modules > > > appear in the list. I try vgscan and/or pvscan and they fail with a > > > segmentation fault. So yeah, if no module tree exists system boots fine, > > > if module tree exists vgscan fails regardless of whether modules are > > > loaded. Yes it defies logic, but I swear thats how it worked:) > > > > I wonder if there might be a single user case disabling lsmod to list? > > Well I doubt that. Originally rtc.o was being loaded and was listed by > lsmod, so I figured maybe that was the problem. rtc.o gets loaded I think > automatically when my system is setting the software clock from the > hardware. But removing rtc.o from the module tree, running depmod -a, and > rebooting, I got the same result where vgscan segfaults. Donald, I figured out that it is the gendisk thing (again). 2.4.20-pre4 even segfaults on "cat /proc/partitions" !!! Investigating... > > -Don > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
