Bug#578272: linux-image-2.6.32-3-686: Enabling Host Protected Area leads to LVM failure

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 05:37:58PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 16:17 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Version: 2.6.32-9
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Going from 2.6.30 to 2.6.32, I can no longer mount my LVM-based
> > partition on my secondary harddisk, I get the following error when I try
> > to run e.g. vgchange:
> > 
> > nighthawk~$ LANG=C sudo vgchange -a y 
> >   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "nighthawk" now active
> >   device-mapper: resume ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> >   Unable to resume data-data (254:3)
> >   1 logical volume(s) in volume group "data" now active
> > nighthawk~$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/data-data /mnt
> > mount: /dev/mapper/data-data already mounted or /mnt busy
> > 
> > This is the corresponding kernel error in syslog:
> > 
> > Apr 18 15:17:02 nighthawk kernel: [   20.713326] device-mapper: table: 254:3: hdc too small for target: start=384, len=78135296, dev_size=71762930
> > 
> > It turns out this is because contrary to linux-image-2.6.30-2-686,
> > 2.6.32 does not disable HPA:
> [...]
> 
> Is there a partition table on /dev/hdc?

No, it seems to be a direct LVM image/partition which spans the whole
disk.


Michael