Re: LVM2 - pvcreate error

[Werner Macho <werner.macho@boku.ac.at>]

hi!

First of all - I also think that this is nothing security related!!!

>  maybe ltrace it?  Because I don't think the error message comes from
>  pvcreate:
>     strings `which pvcreate` | grep regex
>     (yields nothing)

root@inode roger # strings `which pvcreate` | grep regex
regex_filter_create
_Failed to create regex device filter_
devices/filter not found in config file: no regex filter installed
invalid seperator at end of regex
filters/filter-regex.c
regex/matcher.c
Couldn't parse regex
regex/parse_rx.c
Parse error in regex
regex/ttree.c
root@inode roger #

probably you got an old version of pvcreate? For my excuse - I'm doing
this on a gentoo laptop cause I've no debian currently here but .. as
you see the strin is in pvcreate .. alltough i don't know what it means.

regards

Werner