Hi, I confirm this problem on Cubieboard 1 (SocA10) with Debian Wheezy 7.5 and kernel
root@cubie:/etc# lvcreate --verbose --size 200M --name lv_tmp vg_system Setting logging type to disk Finding volume group "vg_system" Logical volume "lv_tmp" already exists in volume group "vg_system" root@cubie:/etc# lvremove --verbose /dev/mapper/vg_system-lv_tmp Using logical volume(s) on command line Do you really want to remove active logical volume lv_tmp? [y/n]: y Archiving volume group "vg_system" metadata (seqno 4). Found volume group "vg_system" ffff0000-ffff1000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vectors]: mlock failed: Cannot allocate memory Removing vg_system-lv_tmp (254:0) Releasing logical volume "lv_tmp" ffff0000-ffff1000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vectors]: munlock failed: Cannot allocate memory Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg_system" (seqno 5). Logical volume "lv_tmp" successfully removed root@cubie:/etc# uname -a Linux cubie 3.4.91 #4 PREEMPT Mon Jun 16 18:30:37 CEST 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux In order to test, i have installed on my Wheezy (7.5) the new jessie lvm2 package so that .... root@cubie:/etc# apt-get install -t jessie lvm2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libffi5 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it. The following extra packages will be installed: dmsetup libc6 libdevmapper1.02.1 libffi6 libp11-kit0 locales Suggested packages: glibc-doc thin-provisioning-tools The following NEW packages will be installed: libffi6 The following packages will be upgraded: dmsetup libc6 libdevmapper1.02.1 libp11-kit0 locales lvm2 6 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 166 not upgraded. Need to get 8898 kB of archives. After this operation, 1603 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main libffi6 armhf 3.1-2 [18.1 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main libp11-kit0 armhf 0.20.2-5 [67.2 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main locales all 2.19-1 [3926 kB] Package configuration Please note that glibc is also updated, but i dont update my kernel. In order to do that, my sources.list is : root@cubie:/etc# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ wheezy main deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free ....and preferences are .... root@cubie:/etc# cat /etc/apt/preferences # file /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=wheezy-backports Pin-Priority: 920 Package: * Pin: release a=wheezy Pin-Priority: 910 Package: * Pin: release a=apt-build Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=jessie Pin-Priority: 890 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 80 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 33 After installation, the system is stable root@cubie:/etc# dpkg -l |grep -v ii Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===============================-=========================-============-======================================================================== and following command is now ok root@cubie:/etc# lvcreate --verbose --size 200M --name lv_tmp vg_system Setting logging type to disk Finding volume group "vg_system" Archiving volume group "vg_system" metadata (seqno 5). Creating logical volume lv_tmp Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg_system" (seqno 6). Activating logical volume "lv_tmp". activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking only host tags for vg_system/lv_tmp Creating vg_system-lv_tmp Loading vg_system-lv_tmp table (254:0) Resuming vg_system-lv_tmp (254:0) Wiping known signatures on logical volume "vg_system/lv_tmp" Initializing 4.00 KiB of logical volume "vg_system/lv_tmp" with value 0. Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg_system" (seqno 6). Logical volume "lv_tmp" created and .... root@cubie:/etc# lvremove --verbose /dev/mapper/vg_system-lv_tmp Using logical volume(s) on command line Do you really want to remove active logical volume lv_tmp? [y/n]: y Archiving volume group "vg_system" metadata (seqno 6). Removing vg_system-lv_tmp (254:0) Releasing logical volume "lv_tmp" Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg_system" (seqno 7). Logical volume "lv_tmp" successfully removed The biggest problem is to know or not if this error can corrupt or not file system ? Please can you update lvm2 package ? Many thanks in advance -- -- -------------------------------------- -- Jean-Marc LACROIX -- -- mailto : jeanmarc.lacr...@free.fr -- --------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org