Bug#252164: Package: installation-reports

[Patrick Caulfield <patrick@debian.org>]

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