Re: Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

[Matthias Murra <Matt.Murra@gmx.de>]

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.

That's probably what is happening! Take another look at the output of 
pvdisplay:

[...]   
  --- NEW Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/hda12
  VG Name               
  PV Size               3.72 GB
  Allocatable           NO
  PE Size (KByte)       0
  Total PE              0
  Free PE               0
  Allocated PE          0
  PV UUID               apfkTu-wKjQ-kHzT-w6TW-0RVV-UuO5-uzRSKH

When compared to the other physical volumes, this doesn't seem right, 
and in fact pvdisplay says "NEW Physical volume" (mind the caps). I 
had failed to notice this. =:o)

/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 ...

> Then all you do is edit /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to exclude that device
> (actually I've done this for you in the latest releases of the lvm
> package):
> filter = [ "r|/dev/cdrom|" ]

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!

Thanks a lot for your help!

Regards,
Matt