Does anybody know how to force lvm to remove a PV or a LV from a PV (even if the VG is not accessible)? Probably it still is present somehow in the vgda and lvm tries to access it.... thanks! Sebastian Walter wrote: > Dear list, > > after a power failure we had troubles with a hard drive, it went down > unrecoverably. So I removed the LV's wich had PE's on this disk by > executing, and I got this error: > > [root@xxx root]# lvremove /dev/xxx/data5 > lvremove -- do you really want to remove "/dev/vghrsc/data5"? [y/n]: y > lvremove -- ERROR "vg_write(): write" storing data of volume group > "vghrsc" on disks > > then I got another strange error: > > Message from syslogd@xxx at Mon Apr 3 12:14:39 2006 ... > xxx kernel: journal commit I/O error > > therefore I decided to reboot the system. After the reboot, I couldn't > manage to get the system up and running again, I got error messages > about vgchange not finding any VG's. > > I even ran vgcfgrestore, but it succeeded without giving me a hint about > errors. > > vgscan now gives me: > > [root@xxx root]# vgscan > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of > volume group "vghrsc" from physical volume(s) > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume > group > > pvscan gives me (I had to remove the scsi disk, before I got some sense > key errors here): > > [root@mex root]# pvscan > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb1" is associated to unknown VG "vghrsc" > (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc1" is associated to unknown VG "vghrsc" > (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdd1" is associated to unknown VG "vghrsc" > (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sde1" is associated to unknown VG "vghrsc" > (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdf1" is associated to unknown VG "vghrsc" > (run vgscan) > pvscan -- total: 5 [6.84 TB] / in use: 5 [6.84 TB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > /dev/sdf1 is the scsi drive I removed in the meanwhile and which is not > present anymore. > > I would really appreciate any help! Thanks in advance, > Sebastian > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
