Re: LVM2 - pvcreate error

[Loic Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr>]

Sam Peppe <S.Peppe@soton.ac.uk> - Wed, Aug 25, 2004:

> 
> I've been trying to set up a volume group on a partition on an IDE hard drive
> (a
> Western Digital 80 GB) at /dev/hda. I am doing this by issuing the command
> "pvcreate /dev/hda4". However, instead of creating the physical
> volume, an error
> is returned: "Failed to create regex device filter". I don't know what
> this
> means or what I should do. Can any one provide any suggestions? Many thanks.

 [ I fail to see how this is related to debian-security. ]

 Could you strace the pvcreate call and check what tool is failing?  Or
 maybe ltrace it?  Because I don't think the error message comes from
 pvcreate:
    strings `which pvcreate` | grep regex
    (yields nothing)

     Regards,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>