Bug 107511 – lvm2 pvdisplay fail to find successfully created physical volume

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Giorgio 2005-09-28 07:20:55 UTC]

I've checked the first 2048 bytes of a scsi disk after a pvcreate and I found
the disklabel wrote by pvcreate, but pvdisplay fails to recognise the physical
volume.
This happens with the current stable version of lvm2 2.01.09.
Version 2.01.13 of lvm2 works correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run pvcreate on a scsi disk
2. Run pvdisplay on the same disk
3.

Actual Results:  
Can't create a logical volume

Expected Results:  
Have a correct output and a usable physical volume to create a logical volume

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/hppa/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.13-pa4 parisc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-pa4 parisc64 PA8600 (PCX-W+)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="hppa"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="hppa2.0-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=2.0 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="hppa2.0-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=2.0 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups foomaticdb fortran gdbm gpm hppa
imlib kde libwww mysql ncurses nls pam perl php pic png python qt readline spell
ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts vhosts xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2006-01-31 08:34:59 UTC]

Please post the output of:

grep '^[[:space:]]*filter = ' /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

Possibly the LVM tools just don't scan your PV because it's filtered...

[Comment 2 Giorgio 2006-01-31 09:06:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please post the output of:
> 
> grep '^[[:space:]]*filter = ' /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
> 
> Possibly the LVM tools just don't scan your PV because it's filtered...
> 
Here's the output:

[root@--- ~]# grep '^[[:space:]]*filter = ' /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
    filter = [ "a/.*/" ]

I'm still running sys-fs/lvm2-2.01.13

[Comment 3 Eric Edgar (RETIRED) 2006-04-19 20:23:11 UTC]

Is this still an issue?  have you upgraded to the latest stable lvm?

[Comment 4 Eric Edgar (RETIRED) 2006-04-20 05:49:08 UTC]

reopen this bug if its still an issue with the newest lvm2-2.02.03