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From: Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:46:54
Message-Id: 480EE95B.90007@genestate.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM? by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have
3 > changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an
4 > LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all your volumes present. But first
5 > we need to find out what's going on (my machine uses baselayout-2 and
6 > openrc & my lvm volumes were unaffected.
7 >
8 > What output do you get from
9 > pvscan
10 > vgscan
11 > lvscan
12 > vgchange -a y
13 >
14 > and what's in the various logs regarding lvm startup?
15 >
16 >
17 Ok,
18
19 pvscan says:
20 No Matching physical volumes found
21
22 vgscan says:
23 Reading all physical volumes....This make take a while
24 No volume groups found
25
26 lvscan says:
27 No volume groups found
28
29 vgchange -a y says:
30 No volume groups found.
31
32 There's not much in the way of logs, seeing as syslog can't start (/var
33 partition is on LVM too). running dmesg doesn't output anything relevant
34 to LVM
35
36 And in reply to Dirk's email, I've added the line to my /etc/rc.conf,
37 but it doesn't seem to have made any difference :(
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM? Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM? Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@×××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>