problems with vgscan

Hello,

I am experiencing problems while doing a vgscan, attached I have included a debug trace for
details.

In short this is what I get :

vgscan -- ERROR "parameter error" with special file /dev/vg01/usr vgscan -- ERROR "parameter error" creating volume group directory and special files
vgscan -- ERROR "parameter error" creating "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"

and I am not able to activate my vg's :-((((.

My config is:
2 disk, complete pv's
1 disk, with 9 linux and dos partitions and 2 pv partitions.

3 volume groups
vg00 complete disk 1
vg02 complete disk 2
vg01 with the two partitions from the remaining disk

vg00 has one logical volume(home)
vg01 has two logical volume's(usr and tmp)
vg02 has one logical volume(lv00)

When I change the partition ID;s from the pv partitions in vg01, from 8e to 83,
(making then invisible to LVM) vgscan completes normal.

During the creation of vg01 I renamed one of the lv's but other than that I did nothing
special to it.

During the creation of vg01 I was able to access the lv but as soon as I rebooted
the problems began.

The kernel I am using it 2.3.99.pre2 but found the same problem when using 2.3.49.

If I need to provide more info i'll be more than happy to.

regards,

Jorg de Jong.

Hi Jorg,

thanks for profiding the "vgscan -d" output.

In line 10588 of the trace i was able to see that lv_check_consistency() finds an inconsistency of the access parameter of logical volume /dev/vg01/usr.

This parameter is almost checked first in lv_check_consistency() so it could be possible, that your VGDA on disk was accidently destroyed.

To check this assumption could you please provide a "pvdata -a" of all PVs of vg01?

Please keep the intact backups of the VGDA in /etc/lvmconf/!

Thanks,
Heinz

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