Hello list, I have a two-node HA-cluster which uses local and cluster LVM. cLVM is currently stopped, I try to remove a snapshot from the root lv which is located on a local VG. I get this error: ha-idg-2:/mnt/spp # lvremove -fv vg_local/lv_snap_pre_sp4 connect() failed on local socket: No such file or directory Internal cluster locking initialisation failed. WARNING: Falling back to local file-based locking. Volume Groups with the clustered attribute will be inaccessible. Archiving volume group "vg_local" metadata (seqno 26). Removing snapshot volume vg_local/lv_snap_pre_sp4. Loading table for vg_local-lv_root (254:8). device-mapper: reload ioctl on (254:8) failed: Invalid argument Failed to refresh lv_root without snapshot. dmesg says: device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load My LV's: ... --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/vg_local/lv_root LV Name lv_root VG Name vg_local LV UUID t79QZ8-0zYm-Qrwd-di2B-BMOb-pN1g-LssjEF LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time ha-idg-2, 2018-08-06 16:52:56 +0200 LV snapshot status source of lv_snap_pre_sp4 [active] LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 100.00 GiB Current LE 3200 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 1024 Block device 254:8 --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/vg_local/lv_snap_pre_sp4 LV Name lv_snap_pre_sp4 VG Name vg_local LV UUID RANlNE-Yz9O-BICs-XXWf-DNtF-d1kQ-Covks3 LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time ha-idg-2, 2019-01-15 11:05:44 +0100 LV snapshot status active destination for lv_root LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 100.00 GiB Current LE 3200 COW-table size 50.00 GiB COW-table LE 1600 Allocated to snapshot 12.04% Snapshot chunk size 4.00 KiB Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 1024 Block device 254:10 I never experienced this before and don't have any clue what's going wrong. Help is much appreciated. Many thanks. Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration Institut für Entwicklungsgenetik Gebäude 35.34 - Raum 208 HelmholtzZentrum münchen bernd.lentes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx phone: +49 89 3187 1241 phone: +49 89 3187 3827 fax: +49 89 3187 2294 http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/idg wer Fehler macht kann etwas lernen wer nichts macht kann auch nichts lernen Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Stellv. Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: MinDirig. Dr. Manfred Wolter Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias Tschoep, Heinrich Bassler, Kerstin Guenther Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/