pvcreate doesn't work

Please attach the output of "pvdisplay -vv"

Pretty sure this isn't a kernel bug.

I had the same problem (not on amd64) that I could create physical volumes with pvcreate but after that I could not create a logical volume. It would reply with exactly that same error. Then I tried pvdisplay -vv and saw that my partitions could also be addressed as /dev/evms/...

I tried:
root@timewarp:~# pvcreate /dev/evms/sdb1
  Physical volume "/dev/evms/sdb1" successfully created
root@timewarp:~# pvcreate /dev/evms/sda4
  Physical volume "/dev/evms/sda4" successfully created
root@timewarp:~# vgcreate vg /dev/evms/sda4 /dev/evms/sdb1
  Volume group "vg" successfully created

Looks like this is a conflict between evms and lvm. Not sure which one is at fault, but let's start with evms.

Same error when I use vgcreate; but it errors on the second physical volume.

I have a 5 drive system, 1 system drive and 4 that I'm attempting to use as a large video storage volume. (Dapper K7)

All 4 drives (hde, hdf, hdg, hdh) completed pv create and show the correct info with pvdisplay. when I try vgcreate;

#vgcreate -s 32M vg0 /dev/hde /dev/hdf /dev/hdg /dev/hdh

I get the following error:

/dev/hdf not identified as an existing physical volume

unable to add physical volume "/dev/hdf" to volume group vg0

Note: the error is always referring to the second drive in the vgcreate command, I have tried several combinations of drive orders my attempts.

Same error for vgcreate on anything unless referring to /dev/evms/*.

Attached script has pvdisplay -vv, if that helps.

R.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Sebastian;
pvcreate works for Ubuntu 7.10 (actually Mythbuntu 7.10).
Thanks for your efforts.

Bill Williams

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Rode" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:38 PM
Subject: [Bug 55743] Re: pvcreate doesn't work

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

** Changed in: evms (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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pvcreate doesn't work
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