Caligiuri, Marco Ernesto wrote: > Hi to all...., > I'm Marco an italian user of RedHat Enterprise 4 , i have this kind of problems: > I must install GFS on a disk partition, non root-partition, it is /dev/sdc1 . Before to make a GFS filesystem...i need to create a volume with LVM2. > Id of partition is 8e (linux LVM) but when i excute the command : > pvcreate /dev/sdc or pvcreate /dev/sdc1 and any other command of lvm (vgcreate...lvcreate....) i receive always the same error: > > connect() failed on local socket: Connection refused > Locking type 2 initialisation failed. > > why?? Anyone can help me? That indicates that you have cluster locking enabled but that the cluster LVM daemon (clvmd) is not running. -- patrick _______________________________________________ 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/