On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 08:47:02PM +0100, Dick Middleton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently running LVM 0.9.1_beta6 on Debian 2.2 with kernel > 2.2.19 and have been trying > for some time to upgrade to something more recent. > > Whenever I try this I find that vgscan from any newer version of LVM > hangs (without > error messages) - I'm forced to reboot. The only evidence I can find is > if I run pvscan. > This reports "different structure size". vgscan coming with a newer LVM version should scan your disks fine. Tha fact that it hangs could refer to an empty CDROM or the like scanned and a large timeout involved. Running "vgscan -d" should find the relevant 'candidate'. If so, temporarily inserting a valid CD or removing the /dev/ entry could help it. > > I currently have all my filesystem including root running on LVM on top > of software RAID so > it's a fairly delicate business mucking about with this. I'm looking > for a way to fix the problem > other than decanting everything to tape and starting from scratch again. > > I do have a separate bootable disc with 2.4 kernel and LVM 1.0 which I > can use as a stepping > stone but so far this too hangs as soon as vgscan is run. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Dick > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
