Joe has some updated stuff that he hasn't put online yet, but for a quick fix, the following patch takes care of that oops: http://chunk.mp3revolution.net/lvm2/patches/09.patch On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 03:44:03PM +0200, Geert Jansen wrote: > > Dear LVM developers, > > I decided to give LVM2 a try but unfortunately it oopses on me. > Software I used: > > * Linux kernel 2.5.44 > * Device mapper patches from: > http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/patches/2.5-stable > * Device mapper programs from: > ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/device-mapper/device-mapper-latest.tgz > * LVM2 tools from: > ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/tools/LVM2.0-latest.tgz > > The oops: > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 > printing eip: > c01f2aca > *pde = 00000000 > Oops: 0002 > > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0060:[<c01f2aca>] Not tainted > EFLAGS: 00010202 > EIP is at device_add+0xea/0x160 > eax: cf091560 ebx: c04517d0 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 > esi: cf091558 edi: ffffffea ebp: cf091500 esp: cf10def8 > ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 > Process vgchange (pid: 138, threadinfo=cf10c000 task=cfa2e0a0) > Stack: cf091558 00000077 cf091558 00000001 cf0915e1 c016f5b8 cf091558 00000002 > c020fa55 0000fe00 00000000 00000000 00000000 cf091400 082480d8 00000002 > c0278844 cf091500 c035d01d 00000000 00000000 d28e0000 c027bc78 d28e0022 > Call Trace: > [<c016f5b8>] register_disk+0x48/0x170 > [<c020fa55>] add_disk+0x75/0x90 > [<c0278844>] dm_create+0x124/0x160 > [<c027bc78>] create+0x98/0xd0 > [<c027c6db>] ctl_ioctl+0xbb/0xf0 > [<c027bbe0>] create+0x0/0xd0 > [<c0155164>] sys_ioctl+0xf4/0x320 > [<c010782b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > > Code: 89 4a 04 89 11 89 d9 89 46 08 89 40 04 ff 05 d0 17 45 c0 0f > > > The oops occured when running the command "vgchange -ay". Before that, > the command "vgscan" executed successfully. The system is a Dell laptop > with a 20G LVM volume group created with the LVM1 tools. The metadata > format is "lvm1". > > I'd be happy to provide more information or test a patch. > > Regards, > Geert Jansen > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. -- Bill Watterson _______________________________________________ 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/
