[CentOS] bootup error - undefined symbol: lvm_snprintf after yum update

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Wed Apr 19 17:30:49 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 13:14 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:25 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > > Hmm...no responses at all.  Has anyone else seen this error?  I'm
> > > reluctant to move toward production with this server if I can't find
> > > out something about this error.
> > 
> > I have reinstalled all the CSGFS files and rebuilt the SRPM in question
> > (lvm2-cluster-2.02.01-1.2.RHEL4.x86_64.rpm).  Try this RPM and see if
> > you get the same error:
> > 
> >
> http://centos.hughesjr.com/testing/RPMS/lvm2/lvm2-cluster-2.02.01-1.2.RHEL4.
> x86_64.rpm
> > 
> > I also rebuilt the lvm2 SRPM as well ... If the above package
> > reinstalled did not do anything, then try reinstalling this one:
> > 
> >
> http://centos.hughesjr.com/testing/RPMS/lvm2/lvm2-2.02.01-1.3.RHEL4.x86_64.r
> pm
> > 
> > I can not check the CentOS csgfs packages against the upstream ones as
> > we do not have access to them, however I did check the second package
> > (part of RHEL) against the upstream file and I did check the older
> > packages built by CentOS against each of the newly built packages, and
> > there was no differences at all.
> > 
> > Please install the top package first and test, then the second one and
> > test. If installing both of these did not work, are you using a non
> > CentOS kernel ... or maybe not the 2.6.9-34.EL or 2.6.9-34.ELsmp kernel
> > provided by CentOS?
> > 
> > > Bowie wrote:
> > > > This is an x86_64 system that I just updated from 4.2 to 4.3
> > > > (including the csgfs stuff).
> > > > 
> > > > When I watch the bootup on the console, I see an error:
> > > > 
> > > > lvm.static: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/liblvm2clusterlock.so:
> > > >    undefined symbol: lvm_snprintf
> > > > 
> > > > This error comes immediately after the "Activating VGs" line, so it
> > > > appears to be triggered by the vgchange command in the clvmd startup
> > > > file.  I have another, identically configured, server which I have not
> > > > updated yet.  This server does not give this error.
> > > > 
> > > > Everything seems to be working fine, so is this something I need to
> > > > worry about?
> 
> The lvm2-cluster rpm is identical to the one already installed via
> yum.
> 
> The lvm2 rpm is the same version, but there is apparently a difference
> in the file somewhere.
>
> Since these files have the same version number as what is already
> installed, what is the cleanest way of reinstalling them?  I can
> remove and reinstall lvm2-cluster, but I can't do this with lvm2 since
> it is required by other things.
> 

rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs xxxxx

> This system is a vanilla Centos 4 system that has been updated to
> current via the standard yum repositories plus the csgfs repository.
> There are a few applications that were built from source, but these
> are all high-level applications and shouldn't affect the cluster at
> all.

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