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When I issue:
vgchange -ayit does not return after at least 20min.
My hardware environment is laptop with two drives. One boots fine, the other drive did, and I am in process of reinstalling Arch to it. Arch 64 bit fully updated.
Further, no LVM command works now:lvs, vgs, lvdisplay.
The problem occurred after I messed up a LVM managed drive, so I thought I could just /dev/zero the first couple thousand bytes.
The drive came back, I could remanage it under LVM, including pv,vg,lv and lay down fs and now this problem.
It is odd since Linux boots under LVM, but I believe the situation on the other drive (in a caddy in optical bay) is causing the hang.
Do you have a tip or link to doc for this issue?
Tks
Resolution details:
Edited /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
changed locking line from 1 to 0
then vgchange worked.
rebooted
changed it back
then all ok.
Probably not right and dangerous, but so far, no side effects.
Last edited by stevepa (2015-03-24 12:09:27)
Arch - LVM - ext4 - gnome (T60p 14.1 1400p x86_64), (T60 15 flexview 1400p i686)
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