Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:46:53PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-22 09:14]: > > I've not had a play with the installer for some time (to my shame) but I wonder > > if it's at all possible to notice that a disk that was allocated to LVM > > (pvcrea

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-22 09:14]: > I've not had a play with the installer for some time (to my shame) but I wonder > if it's at all possible to notice that a disk that was allocated to LVM > (pvcreated) has now been allocated to a filesystem. In which case a pvremove > co

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Caulfield
I've not had a play with the installer for some time (to my shame) but I wonder if it's at all possible to notice that a disk that was allocated to LVM (pvcreated) has now been allocated to a filesystem. In which case a pvremove could be done on the volume. This maybe totally impractical, of cours

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2004-06-22 Thread Matthias Murra
On Montag, 21. Juni 2004 18:40, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Matthias Murra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-21 17:17]: > > It's certainly not lvm's fault if the installer screwed up a bit, > > so yes, this bug probably can be closed -- or reassigned to the > > So what exactly did the installer do? Fro

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Matthias Murra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-21 17:17]: > It's certainly not lvm's fault if the installer screwed up a bit, so > yes, this bug probably can be closed -- or reassigned to the So what exactly did the installer do? From what I can see, you created some LVM devices, but they were "

Re: Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-21 Thread Matthias Murra
On Montag, 21. Juni 2004 16:18, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > 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! The installer seems to have done that, yes. I thought the installer's behavior was prett

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2004-06-21 Thread Patrick Caulfield
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

Re: Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-21 Thread Matthias Murra
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

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-21 Thread Patrick Caulfield
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.

Re: Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-21 Thread Matthias Murra
On Montag, 21. Juni 2004 08:22, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > Well, if things seem to be working OK, I wouldn't worry too much > about it! I would have expected vgchange to fail if the MDA > checksums were wrong but it seems not. > > In the meantime can you send me a vgdisplay output and a > pvdispl

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2004-06-20 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:33:45PM +0200, Matthias Murra wrote: > On Freitag, 18. Juni 2004 18:12, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:54:38PM +0200, Matthias Murra wrote: > > > > You probably shouldn't need to reinstall. Upgrading the tools > > should either fix it automaticall

Re: Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-20 Thread Matthias Murra
On Freitag, 18. Juni 2004 18:12, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:54:38PM +0200, Matthias Murra wrote: > > You probably shouldn't need to reinstall. Upgrading the tools > should either fix it automatically, or you can do > vgcfgbackup/vgcfgrestore to rewrite the metadata. I ha

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2004-06-18 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:54:38PM +0200, Matthias Murra wrote: > > I have stumbled across this thread by googling for the "incorrect > metadata area header checksum" message mentioned above, because > that's the message I am seeing when booting my Debian Sid system that > I installed on my Tos

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2004-06-18 Thread Matthias Murra
On Fri, 11 Jun, 2004, at 17:25:25 +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:10:18PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-11 06:19]: > > > > In any case, can you type: > > > > vgchange -a y > > > > and restart the partitioner; then

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2004-06-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-14 09:17]: > http://people.debian.org/~patrick/lvm2-udeb_2.00.16-2_i386.udeb daveg2: After network configuration in debian-installer, open a shell on the 2nd virtual console (alt-f2) and then type: wget http://people.debian.org/~patrick/lvm2-udeb_2

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-14 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:43:29PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-11 17:25]: > > There was an odd bug in earlier lvm2 that used to cause checksum > > failures but I can't locate which version that was and I assume that > > you'll be using a fairly

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-11 17:25]: > There was an odd bug in earlier lvm2 that used to cause checksum > failures but I can't locate which version that was and I assume that > you'll be using a fairly recent udeb anyway. No, the udeb we currently use is 2.00.08-4 (at least

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:10:18PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > reassign 252164 lvm2 > thanks > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-11 06:19]: > > > In any case, can you type: > > > vgchange -a y > > > and restart the partitioner; then they should show up. > > > > > Done. Fo

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2004-06-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
reassign 252164 lvm2 thanks * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-11 06:19]: > > In any case, can you type: > > vgchange -a y > > and restart the partitioner; then they should show up. > > > Done. For each lv, I get: > Incorrect metadata area header checksum > Incorrect metadata are

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2004-06-11 Thread daveg2
On 11 Jun 2004 at 13:13, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Strange, I wonder why they're inactive... since you just created them, > they should be active.  You did just create them, right?  Or did they > exist before?  I did just create them.  In other runs where I did not, it tells me that it fo

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2004-06-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-10 19:42]: > lvscan reports the same first three lines as vgscan and concludes > by correctly listing all lvs, but as inactive. Here's the first listed: > inactive '/dev/vg1/usrlv' [1.0 GB] next free (default). Strange, I wonder why they're inac

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2004-06-10 Thread daveg2
On 10 Jun 2004 at 20:48, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-02 22:21]: > > OK, I went back through the steps.  Indeed I did all of 1 through 5 in > > the correct order.  I can't for the life of me figure out 6.  In the main > > menu of Partition Disks,

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-02 22:21]: > OK, I went back through the steps. Indeed I did all of 1 through 5 in > the correct order. I can't for the life of me figure out 6. In the main > menu of Partition Disks, I can see all partitions including the two > lvm partitions,

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2004-06-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:11:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just today discovered the IBM donation of EVMS to the LINUX world. I'll bet I > also > need to select evms-udeb? I have not been because I didn't know what EVMS is. If > not required, what does evms-udeb add? evms-udeb i

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-02 Thread daveg2
On 1 Jun 2004 at 19:50, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hola daveg! > > Well, this might seem stupid, but did you select the filesystem in the > partition manager menu? That's where you have to select it. These are > the steps for LVM in the new debian installer: > 1 - Create the LVM partitions i

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2004-06-02 Thread daveg2
On 1 Jun 2004 at 19:50, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hola daveg! > > Partitioning goes fine, configuring the lvm goes fine, > > but on leaving the lvm and starting up the partitioner, > > it hangs at 56%. Only once out of many attempts did > > it complete. In that case, it continued to insta

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2004-06-01 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hola [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Partitioning goes fine, configuring the lvm goes fine, > but on leaving the lvm and starting up the partitioner, > it hangs at 56%. Only once out of many attempts did > it complete. In that case, it continued to install base > system without offering to create filesy

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2004-06-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-01 12:45]: > Sarge daily 5-22-04 from the Debian site Can you get a newer image from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ (although it shouldn't really matter). > Partitioning goes fine, configuring the lvm goes fine, but on > leaving

Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-01 Thread daveg2
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Sarge daily 5-22-04 from the Debian site uname -a: linux server 2.6.5-1-386#2 Fri Apr 30 20:13:30 EST 2004 i586 unknown Date: Friday May 7, 2004 ~8:30 PM PDT Method: Net install using the 800 MB netinst image, booted from the CD, exper