[mythtv-users] Terminal hangs when trying to mount LVM vgroup

Azmat azmat.hussain at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 06:21:53 UTC 2007


That worked.  Thanks!!!

On 7/22/07, Javier Perez <pepebuho at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 7/21/07, Azmat <azmat.hussain at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running MythTV on Fedora Core 5 using an LVM filesystem to store
> > my recordings. The other night, when it was about to start recording a
> > show, the recording started to hang. I killed the program and the
> > server and decided to reboot the machine. When it came back up, I
> > tried remounting the LVM group:
> >
> > mount /dev/MythVideo/video /video
> >
> > But the terminal hangs on this command and can't be aborted with ctrl-c.
> >
> > Looking at the output from dmesg, I have:
> > ReiserFS: dm-0: Removing [4 480 0x0 SD]..<4>ReiserFS: dm-0: warning:
> > PAP-5660: reiserfs_do_truncate: wrong result -1 of search for [4 480
> > 0xfffffffffffffff DIRECT]
> > done
> > ReiserFS: dm-0: Removing [4 480 0x0 SD]..<4>ReiserFS: dm-0: warning:
> > PAP-5660: reiserfs_do_truncate: wrong result -1 of search for [4 480
> > 0xfffffffffffffff DIRECT]
> > done
> > ReiserFS: dm-0: Removing [4 480 0x0 SD]..<4>ReiserFS: dm-0: warning:
> > PAP-5660: reiserfs_do_truncate: wrong result -1 of search for [4 480
> > 0xfffffffffffffff DIRECT]
> > done
> > ReiserFS: dm-0: Removing [4 480 0x0 SD]..<4>ReiserFS: dm-0: warning:
> > PAP-5660: reiserfs_do_truncate: wrong result -1 of search for [4 480
> > 0xfffffffffffffff DIRECT]
> > done
> > ReiserFS: dm-0: Removing [4 480 0x0 SD]..<4>ReiserFS: dm-0: warning:
> > PAP-5660: reiserfs_do_truncate: wrong result -1 of search for [4 480
> > 0xfffffffffffffff DIRECT]
> > done
> >
> > I don't know what this message means. I tried to include the messages
> > from my /var/log/messages, but trying to output this long hangs the
> > terminal in a similar manner as the mounting command.
> >
> > Here's the output from vgdisplay -v:
> > [root at filmfreak mythtv]# /usr/sbin/vgdisplay -v
> > Finding all volume groups
> > Finding volume group "MythVideo"
> > --- Volume group ---
> > VG Name MythVideo
> > System ID
> > Format lvm2
> > Metadata Areas 2
> > Metadata Sequence No 11
> > VG Access read/write
> > VG Status resizable
> > MAX LV 0
> > Cur LV 1
> > Open LV 0
> > Max PV 0
> > Cur PV 2
> > Act PV 2
> > VG Size 303.56 GB
> > PE Size 64.00 MB
> > Total PE 4857
> > Alloc PE / Size 4848 / 303.00 GB
> > Free PE / Size 9 / 576.00 MB
> > VG UUID lbfBFS-cMj5-28yl-lAHD-d7mm-ueT8-I3bxJO
> >
> > --- Logical volume ---
> > LV Name /dev/MythVideo/video
> > VG Name MythVideo
> > LV UUID Qn5H9s-93HE-GEJl-MGUH-B4Aa-9cFy-L5VEXu
> > LV Write Access read/write
> > LV Status available
> > # open 0
> > LV Size 303.00 GB
> > Current LE 4848
> > Segments 2
> > Allocation inherit
> > Read ahead sectors 0
> > Block device 253:0
> >
> > --- Physical volumes ---
> > PV Name /dev/hda6
> > PV UUID ra4621-JPcp-2X0I-U0Ix-RUOA-Weeg-xAkLeF
> > PV Status allocatable
> > Total PE / Free PE 386 / 9
> >
> > PV Name /dev/hdb1
> > PV UUID B4FhxP-3p0e-PAV3-uYoS-Gnon-Tq9z-f18cx8
> > PV Status allocatable
> > Total PE / Free PE 4471 / 0
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered this? I tried umounting /video just in
> > case it was still mounted:
> >
> > [root at filmfreak mythtv]# umount /video
> > umount: /video: not mounted
> >
> > I don't know what else to try but I'm open to ideas.
> >
> > Thanks.
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> >
>
> some ideas
>
> 1. Run vgchange -ay . It will make available the lvm disk
> 2. run fsck /dev/MythVideo/video . this should run a system check of the
> file system on the lvm. Make sure that you have the reisefs utilities
> installed so fsck can find the proper fsck routine for a reiserfs filesystem
>
> --
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