On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:05:07PM +0200, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:12:32PM +0200, Daniel Bayer wrote: > > But this problem: > > > > Another related problem is, that "cat /proc/lvm/global" in the most > > > > cases doesn't output the usual data but some random memory. Its really > > > > odd. But if I try often enough I sometimes also get the right output > > > > (and no, I didn't calculated the probability). The other files in > > > > /proc/lvm work fine. > > > > appears also if there are no snapshots at all. (This time I only had > > to try 2 times to get the version-string.) I just did the update of the kernel (1.0.7(28/03/2003)) and tools (1.0.7-3). The problem with /proc/lvm/global still appears: | tau:~ # hexdump -C < /proc/lvm/global | 00000000 00 06 d9 84 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000010 00 06 d9 40 00 00 00 00 00 04 f4 08 00 00 00 00 |...@............| | 00000020 00 06 e6 fc 00 00 00 00 00 06 da bc 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000030 00 06 f1 70 00 00 00 00 00 06 f0 94 00 00 00 00 |...p............| | 00000040 00 06 db f0 00 00 00 00 00 06 f5 88 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000050 00 06 d8 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000060 00 06 e6 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 d9 08 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 ea dc 00 00 00 00 |................| | 000000a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 fb cc 00 00 00 00 |................| | 000000b0 00 06 f9 88 00 00 00 00 00 06 f5 88 00 00 00 00 |................| | 000000c0 00 07 b0 9c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| | 000000d0 00 06 db 50 00 00 00 00 00 06 c7 d8 00 00 00 00 |...P............| | 000000e0 00 06 f3 bc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| | 000000f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 d9 84 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 f5 70 00 00 00 00 |...........p....| | 00000110 00 06 d8 68 00 00 00 00 00 06 fc e8 00 00 00 00 |...h............| | 00000120 00 06 e6 c4 00 00 00 00 00 06 da bc 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000130 00 06 f1 70 00 00 00 00 00 06 f0 94 00 00 00 00 |...p............| | 00000140 00 06 db f0 00 00 00 00 00 06 f5 88 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 c1 e0 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000160 00 06 e7 38 00 00 00 00 00 06 d2 a4 00 00 00 00 |...8............| | 00000170 00 06 d4 1c 00 00 00 00 00 06 c1 5c 00 00 00 00 |...........\....| | 00000180 00 06 fc 88 00 00 00 00 00 06 d9 08 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 ea dc 00 00 00 00 |................| | 000001a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 f8 94 00 00 00 00 |................| | 000001b0 00 06 f9 88 00 00 00 00 00 06 f5 88 00 00 00 00 |................| | 000001c0 00 06 d8 50 00 00 00 00 00 04 f3 00 00 00 00 00 |...P............| | 000001d0 00 06 db 50 00 00 00 00 00 06 f4 94 00 00 00 00 |...P............| | 000001e0 00 06 f3 bc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| | 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 eb 88 00 00 00 00 |................| | 00000200 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 e9 60 00 00 00 00 |...........`....| | 00000210 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| | * | 000003b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.......| | 000003b7 | tau:~ # At the moment there are four or five outputs that appears often. Others are more seldom. Sometimes there are strings in the output, that (at least I believe so) belong to some userspace programm. If I do a "lvdisplay" on a snapshot I still get the vfree-error: | Jun 3 20:58:16 tau kernel: Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (00000001401a8000) | Jun 3 20:58:45 tau last message repeated 5 times As I'm only logged in remotely I wont try to crash the system now. Daniel _______________________________________________ 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/
