Kernel 2.4.30: lvm suddently stopped working :(
Hello,
It seems my message never arrived in the list, so I repost it...
Today we rebooted a debian testing server (no updates made for a long time
- never change a running system) and suddently lvm stopped working. It
worked yesterday...
SERVER:~# vgscan
vgscan -- LVM driver/module not loaded?
I _know_ lvm is built into the kernel, not as a module. But /proc/lvm
doesn't exist and the following doesn't look good either
SERVER:~# strace vgscan
[...]
open("/dev/lvm", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)
[...]
No such device - how is this possible if the driver is built into the
kernel ?
I have this config :
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
#
CONFIG_MD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=m
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m
CONFIG_MD_RAID0=m
CONFIG_MD_RAID1=m
CONFIG_MD_RAID5=m
CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=y
Some time later: OK, now I compiled lvm as a module, modprobed it and all
is fine.
Well, nearly all. I really need to know why lvm stopped working in the
first place...
Many thanks,
Markus Grunwald
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