On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:46:43PM +0100, Roger Eriksson wrote: > I'm new at this list and new with linux lvm. > > The story this far. I bought a new hard disk to my file server at home and > decided to reinstall the thing with a newer version of Linux (Red Hat 6.2 > before, now Mandrake 9.2). I decided to go with LVM and reiserfs, during the > setup of Mandrake 9.2. Roger, we've got one problem report which might be related, where LVM fails to create UUIDs on Mandrake which is probably related to /dev/urandom used by LVM to retrieve random numbers. Check if /dev/urandom exists and is readable. Please check with pvdisplay on all you PVs and "vgdisplay -D" if they have UUIDs set fine and report results here. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > On the server I have two sets of disks. Three 4.6 Gb SCSI disks that I > joined together using LVM and three larger IDE disks that I also joined > together. Everything went well and I started to copy back the files that I > earlier copied to my Window and Linux desktop computers. No problems with > that and since it got late a set the computers to move the files back and > went to bed. The next morning when I checked the damn thing it had rebooted > and reiserfs said that it couldn't find a file system on the IDE set. Now, > after carefully examined the situation I think that it might have something > to do with LVM. It seems like one disk is missing from the vg. > > This is the things I've done (from notes on paper, so it's not the real > output from the screen): > > > fdisk /dev/hda > > Device boot start end blocks id system > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 03 Linux > /dev/hda2 14 2482 19832242 5 Extended > /dev/hda3 14 2482 19832211 8e Linux lvm > > > fdisk /dev/hdb > Device boot start end blocks id system > /dev/hdb1 * 1 5005 40202631 8e Linux lvm > > > fdisk /dev/hdc > Device boot start end blocks id system > /dev/hdc1 * 1 19929 160079661 8e Linux lvm > > > vgscan > vgscan -- found active volume group "SystemVolume" > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv() : current PV" can't get data of > volume group "DataVolume" from physical volume(s) > ... > > > pvscan > -- active PV "/dev/scsi//host0/bus0/target8/lun0/part1" of VG "SystemVolume" > [4.22 GB/0 free] > -- active PV "/dev/scsi//host0/bus0/target9/lun0/part1" of VG "SystemVolume" > [4.22 GB/0 free] > -- active PV "/dev/scsi//host0/bus0/target10/lun0/part1" of VG > "SystemVolume" [4.22 GB/0 free] > -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5" is associated to > unknown VG "DataVolume" (run vgscan) > -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1" is associated to > unknown VG "DataVolume" (run vgscan) > -- total : 5 [70.01 GB] / in use : 5 [70.01 GB] / in no VG : 0 [0] > > > And, as I told you, this is my first try with linux lvm. Not sure what to do > now and I rather try to find some answers before I make a mess on my own. I > would like to save the files from the system if possible, but it's nothing > that I can't replace (what I can't replace I have on tapes also). > > Any suggestions how to solve this situation? > > Thank's for reading. > > /Roger E > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
