On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:58:37PM +0200, Matthias Murra wrote: > On Montag, 21. Juni 2004 14:24, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > Hang on, there's an alarm bell that I've not been heeding. > > > > Looking in the code: "Incorrect metadata area header checksum" is a > > fatal error. > > > > If that's is occurring on one of tour PVs then the VG should not > > activate.that leads me to think it might be another disk/device > > that is producing the error. Maybe LVM2 has spotted something that > > looks like an MDA but actually isn't. > > > /dev/hda12 is not supposed to be part of the volume set. It is my root > partition (ext3), which I created and excluded from the set when the > Sarge installer told me that the root partition cannot be an lvm > volume (at least, not yet). This partition isn't even 3.72 GB in > size ...
Ah, so you did pvcreate on it (or the installer did), then did mkfs over that? I can imagine that would have an odd effect on the LVM metadata! > This line had already been in my lvm.conf. I've added "r|/dev/hda12|" > to the array, run vgscan, and that seems to have done the trick! Excellent. Can I close this bug or is there something you think needs fixing here ? -- patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
