I setup a test file server with an LVM consisting of 2 3390-9's, which I then loaded up with files, and it has been working just fine (couple of months now). For no reason that I can determine, the LVM has been "lost", resulting in errors at boot time, thus causing Linux to come up in maintenance mode.
The only thing that I can think of that has happened recently is perhaps the result of an IPL of VM last weekend? I had setup the Signal Shutdowntime in System Config to 500 so that the Linux guests would have time to shutdown, and last weekend was the first time that I had operations staff shutdown & IPL VM. It seemed to have worked OK last week as well when I tested it (on Thursday), but then I didn't notice anything wrong with the Linux file server until this week (yesterday), so I'm not sure if the "auto" shutdown of the Linux servers via the VM shutdown is really allowing the servers to come down gracefully or not - up until last week I had always brought down the servers first, then shutdown VM. The implied question here is, can a disruptive shutdown of Linux have an adverse impact on the LVM? In any case, here's some of the messages from the boot log: Scanning for LVM volume groups... Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Activating LVM volume groups... No volume groups found ..done Checking file systems... fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) Checking all file systems. Ý/sbin/fsck.reiserfs (1) -- /usr/share/doc/books¨ fsck.reiserfs -a /dev/books/Books Failed to open the device '/dev/books/Books': No such device or address fsck.reiserfs /dev/books/Books failed (status 0x8). Run manually! Ý1A..failedblogd: no message logging because /var file system is not accessible No available keymaps for machine s390x found fsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /). Please repair manually and reboot. So I am wondering if anybody has any ideas how this might have happened, and more importantly, how can I go about fixing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jim Moling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
