problem with activating volume group

Hi there!

I have read all the documentation in the LVM-package and your homepage, but i can't find a
sollution to my problem in the HOW-TOs.

I run kernel 2.4.13 with Slackware 8.0. I tried to patch the rc.S with the patch i found on your homepage
but it looks like the patch is allready applied in the distribution.

I have loaded LVM as a module in the boot. Everything runs perfectly until i try to activate my
volume group "vg01".

When i run : vgchange -v -d -a y i get the following output, but I don't really know what the problem is.

Any help is aprichiated.

And thank you for making great software.

mvh
Frode Ulsund
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<333> vg_check_name -- vg_name: "vg01"
<4444> lvm_check_chars -- CALLED with name: "vg01" <4444> lvm_check_chars -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<333> vg_check_name -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<22> vg_check_consistency -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<1> vg_create_remove -- IOCTL
<1> vg_create_remove -- IOCTL returned: -22
<1> vg_create_remove -- LEAVING with ret: -22
<> vgchange -- vg_create returned: -22
<1> lvm_error -- CALLED with: -22
<1> lvm_error -- LEAVING with: "Invalid argument" vgchange -- ERROR "Invalid argument" activating volume group "vg01" <1> vg_free -- CALLED
<1> vg_free -- entering PV loop
<1> vg_free -- entering LV loop
<1> vg_free -- LEAVING with ret: 0
vgchange -- unlocking logical volume manager
<1> lvm_unlock -- CALLED
<1> lvm_unlock -- LEAVING with ret: 0
<1> lvm_unlock -- CALLED
<1> lvm_unlock -- LEAVING with ret: -104

Frode,

you didn't metion the LVM version you use and if you followed the kernel patch instrcutions contained in the LVM source distro.

I guess you have a user/kernel code mismatch because 2.4.13 is still not up to date. Recent Alan Cox kernel is and we hope that he'll update Linus *soon*.

In order to get a clean LVM configuration, please get the LVM distro from www.sistina.com and follow the instructions in the files INSTALL and PATCHES/README.

Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --

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