Axel, some snapshot metadata got corrupted. Do you see any messages in syslog spotting some light on what happened ? To get your VG back, you need to drop existing snapshots via "vgscan -r". Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:57:31PM +0100, Axel Reinhold wrote: > Hi, > > when I start up my home-server today I was shocked. > LVM didn't change my volgroup to available. The server > was shut down yesterday with a normal shutdown properly. > > [root@bongo root]# vgck vg01 > vgck -- VGDA of "vg01" in lvmtab is consistent > vgck -- VGDA of "vg01" on physical volume is consistent > > vgchange tells me: > > [root@bongo root]# vgchange -ay vg01 > vgchange -- ERROR "Bad address" activating volume group "vg01" > > the kernel says (dmesg): > lvm -- _pv_get_number failed for rdev = 65535 > lvm -- lvm_snapshot_fill_COW_page failed<3> > > I tried vgscan -> Ok. > > I'm totally lost. It's my home-server. > I used snapshots (intensively) without problems for a couple of weeks. > > Would you please help me to recover the data. > There is no hardware problem - I'm sure - The data is still there. > > Used versions: > Linux 2.4.20 > LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded > Logical Volume Manager 1.0.6 > Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 25/10/2002 (IOP 10) > > Axel Reinhold > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ *** 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://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
