On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:44:08PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:20:45AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > LVM version: 2.01.04 (2005-02-09) > > There have been many bug fixes since that release. > > First of all, try the last 2.01.* release (2.01.15) and see > whether that fixes it. > > > Library version: 1.01.00-ioctl (2005-01-17) > > Also suggest updating device-mapper to 1.01.05. > > Check that you have in lvm.conf devices section: > md_component_detection = 1 > (i.e. not = 0) That was the one, thank you so much. For some reason, the debian package I got had this set to 0 by default Ideally, I would have known about this file, but I didn't realize it appeared between lvm1 and lvm2 Thanks for your help (the VG is indeed up and happy now) Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f@merlins.org for PGP key _______________________________________________ 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/