[CentOS] Update 4.2 broke LVM

Patrick Lawrence (CentOS) xxagGxOGLGlkHPZkvyxc at patsoffice.com
Mon Oct 17 15:47:53 UTC 2005


> When rebooting, I was forced to the login prompt, because my LVM  group 
> with my home directory couldn't be mounted.
> 
> I'm not very familiar with LVM, I had only used it to make one  
> consolidated directory for my 100 and 160GB hard drives.

I have the same issue.  I've got a volume group spread across 2 disks 
and when I try to activate that volgroup I get the following:

<snip>
[root at hetfield mapper]# vgchange -ay VolGroup02
   device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument
   Couldn't load device 'VolGroup02-DVD'.
   1 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup02" now active
<snip>

and the relevant portion of the /var/log/messages has:

<snip>
Oct 17 08:45:07 hetfield kernel: device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup 
failed
Oct 17 08:45:07 hetfield kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table
<snip>

My other two volgroups are working fine.  It's just this third one that 
has problems.

I did quite a bit of googling yesterday, but I didn't come up with much 
although I have to confess that I know jack about the device mapper...

Regards,

Pat



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