> Hi, > > When I do pvcreate, I get deluged with "pvcreate /dev/sdf: close failed: > Bad file descriptor" messages. > > I need to explicity open another session to kill the previous pvcreate > instance to get out of this situation. > > On the same system, pvcreate another device succeeds. > > Distro: RHEL 4.0 GA version > version LVM version: 2.00.31 (2004-12-12) > version Library version: 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03) > version Driver version: 4.3.0 > > :~ # dd if=/dev/sdf of=/dev/null bs=1k count=2 > 2+0 records in > 2+0 records out > :~ # dd if=/dev/sde of=/dev/null bs=1k count=2 > 2+0 records in > 2+0 records out > > # pvcreate /dev/sde > pvcreate Physical volume "/dev/sde" successfully created > > # pvcreate /dev/sdf > pvcreate /dev/sdf: close failed: Bad file descriptor > pvcreate /dev/sdf: close failed: Bad file descriptor > pvcreate /dev/sdf: close failed: Bad file descriptor > pvcreate /dev/sdf: close failed: Bad file descriptor > > > Same messages till I kill pvcreate explicitly. > > I see that lvmdiskscan does NOT list /dev/sdf but does list /dev/sde > > Note: I did a vgscan/pvscan explicitly after doing a "make install" of the > built 2.00.31 sources. > > When I downgrade the lvm version (say: 2.00.15), make and make install -- > everything seems to work find > and I am able to do a PV on both sde and sdf. And I am able to see both > devices in lvmdiskscan output. > > Any idea on what's happening here? > > Thanks, > Vinod > > > > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
