Re: 2.6.9-mm1: LVM stopped working

From: Christophe Saout
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 14:10:12 EST


Am Sonntag, den 24.10.2004, 01:06 +0200 schrieb Mathieu Segaud:

> Well, I gave a try to last -mm tree. The bot seemed good till it got to
> LVM stuff. Vgchange does not find any volume groups. I can't say much because
> lvm is pretty "early stuff" on this box; so it is pretty unusable. All I know
> for now, as I changed a little my boot scripts to be more verbose, is that
> vgchange -avvv y returns this kind of message:
> hdXN: cannot read LABEL
> and this message for all parts it can test....
> As I need this box up and running, I came back to 2.6.9-rc3-mm3 (it works
> pretty well). I will be able to run more tests on it, tomorrow but for now
> that's all I can provide.
>
> Oh and dmesg didn't have any oops or BUG in it, and seemed quite usual,
> in IDE detection and settings messages and device-mapper messages.
>
> However, I use dm-crypt to encrypt my / (no initrd, just initramfs) and
> it works under 2.6.9-mm1, so the bug is likely to be in IDE stuff.

Are you encrypting your PV or your LVs?

There's some new dm-crypt code in -mm1 along with some API changes, but
backward compatibility is provided and should work.

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