On 10/11/2010 07:21 PM, Riches Jr, RobertX M wrote: > I’m running into an odd problem in which vgcreate fails with a return value or > exit code of 5. It is called from a script that calls pvcreate twice to create > two PVs, then immediately calls vgcreate to create the VG. Exit status 5 just means "command failed": $ grep -r ECMD_FAILED ~/cvs/LVM2/lib/commands/errors.h #define ECMD_FAILED 5 > An exit code of 5 appears to indicate excessive numbers of VGs. However, there > are no other VGs on the system prior to this call to vgcreate. Search engine There are hundreds of possible reasons for this error: $ grep -r ECMD_FAILED ~/cvs/LVM2/ | wc -l 271 > results indicate the PV might be corrupt. However, the PV was just created a few > milliseconds before calling vgcreate. The tools normally output a more descriptive error indicating what went wrong. If for some reason you are not getting anything helpful add more verbosity (e.g. -vvvv) to try to understand where it's failing. Regards, Bryn. _______________________________________________ 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/
