Hi Heinz, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > nothing in the log directly related to LVM :( > But your hint WRT naming devices could help us. > Do you have devfs mounted on /dev and don't use the full devfs > names in all cases? I don't use devfs at all (yet), but the device nodes were present all the time. What do you mean with "full devfs names"? Maybe these excerpts of the output of pvdata help (this is from a run after I did pvcreate -ff): ,----[ pvdata -d /dev/hda7 ] | [...] | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- CALLED | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- LEAVING | <1> lv_check_consistency -- CALLED | <22> lv_check_name -- CALLED with lv_name: "HM^A" | <333> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "HM^A" | <333> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: -100 | <22> lv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: -132 | <1> lv_check_consistency -- LEAVING with ret: -149 | pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 0 is inconsistent | [...] | | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- CALLED | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- LEAVING | <1> lv_check_consistency -- CALLED | <22> lv_check_name -- CALLED with lv_name: "" | <22> lv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: -132 | <1> lv_check_consistency -- LEAVING with ret: -149 | pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 13 is inconsistent | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- CALLED | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- LEAVING | <1> lv_check_consistency -- CALLED | <22> lv_check_name -- CALLED with lv_name: "ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª | <22> lv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: -132 | <1> lv_check_consistency -- LEAVING with ret: -149 | pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 14 is inconsistent | [...] | | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- CALLED | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- LEAVING | --- NEW Physical volume --- | PV Name /dev/hda7 | VG Name | PV Size 32.44 GB [68035212 secs] | PV# 0 | PV Status NOT available | Allocatable NO | Cur LV 0 | PE Size (KByte) 0 | Total PE 0 | Free PE 0 | Allocated PE 0 | PV UUID 0KMQsG-r21J-GwKA-qpZD-1FC9-plP0-t0aryJ | | --- Volume group --- | VG Name | VG Access read/write | VG Status NOT available/resizable | VG # 0 | MAX LV 256 | Cur LV 3 | Open LV 0 | MAX LV Size 255.99 GB | Max PV 256 | Cur PV 1 | Act PV 1 | VG Size 32.44 GB | PE Size 4 MB | Total PE 8304 | Alloc PE / Size 4375 / 17.09 GB | Free PE / Size 3929 / 15.35 GB | VG UUID BC9DHB-T9v3-6LNt-7qtv-7uHE-7pg2-K4flga | | --- List of logical volumes --- | | pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 1 is empty | [...] | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- CALLED | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- LEAVING | <1> lv_check_consistency -- CALLED | <22> lv_check_name -- CALLED with lv_name: "ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª | <22> lv_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: -132 | <1> lv_check_consistency -- LEAVING with ret: -149 | pvdata -- logical volume struct at offset 125 is inconsistent | [like this through to LV 139] | [...] | | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- CALLED | <1> lv_copy_from_disk -- LEAVING | <1> pv_read_uuidlist -- CALLED with /dev/hda7 | <1> pv_read_uuidlist -- LEAVING with ret: 0 | <1> lvm_check_uuid -- CALLED with uuidstr: "(null)" | <1> lvm_check_uuid -- LEAVING with ret: -1 | | Segmentation fault. `---- So you see, there was really a lot of garbage... :-) I also saved the outputs of pvscan -d and vgscan -d, in case you think they help. > If so, please retry giving the full names. I can't try anything anymore because I decided not to use LVM anymore at least until I know what happened and I know that it won't happen again. Sure, it's probably not the fault of LVM, but I think, if I would have been using "plain ext2/3", I probably wouldn't have lost just *all* of my data (lucky that I had a very young backup, so I actually didn't loose anything). cu, Raffi -- => Neu im Usenet? Fragen? http://www.use-net.ch/usenet_intro_de.html <= The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference, but in practice, there is. Raffael Herzog - herzog@raffael.ch - http://www.raffael.ch - ICQ #67961355 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
