Help: ERROR -154

Hello,

when running vgscan I get the following error message:

vgscan -- ERROR -154: can't get data of volume group "part" from physical volume(s)
vgscan -- ERROR -154 creating "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"

(I put a complete output of vgscan -d up for download under:
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marc.O.Sandlus/vgscan_debug.gz)

This happened after rebooting the computer a couple of days after shrinking a LV, renaming it and then creating a new LV with the name of the old one. I don't know if this has anything to do with this, but I haven't messed around with LVM otherwise and it ran just fine for quite some time.

For me it looks like the is some internal counter wrong. I think it triers to count the LVs and counts 8 somewhere and 9 somewhere else (9 is the right number).

I'm using the latest Debian Package (0.8i) and I tried several different kernels (2.2.18, 2.2.17 and 2.2.14).
And I tried it with 2.4.0-test12 and a self compiled 0.8final.

I always get the same results.

Looking forward to any help,
Lars

Hello,

sorry for posting to the list and then finding the answer in the archives.

I tried to run vgcfgrestore before posting to the list, but I didn't know that "/etc/lvmtab" does not exist was not a feature, but a bug. After touching it and mkdir'ing /etc/lvmtab.d/ it worked OK, although it gave an error on the first run about not being able to insert the VG into /etc/lvmtab. But that went away on the second run.

Thanks for LVM which worked perfectly for me (until now :-), Lars

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