On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 09:55:41AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 12:12:00AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I also ran into this on upgrading from stretch to buster. Fortunately I > > > was keeping enough of an eye on console output from the upgrade that I > > > was able to find this bug and I worked around it as you describe here. > > In case it's useful information to anyone, since the system ID appears > > to contain a seconds-since-epoch value, I can deduce that I created the > > VG on 2004-05-18, which makes sense given the sorts of things I was > > doing at the time. I would have been running either woody or the > > current state of sarge in development at the time. > > Is is possible this VG was converted from lvm1? In the year 2004 lvm2 > existed but was rather new. I found code to generate exactly this > format of system id in the lvm1 support code of lvm2/2.01.14 (the oldest > version I was able to find easily).
Hm, I can certainly believe that. I no longer have detailed records that far back I'm afraid ... -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]

