Le lundi 22 novembre 2010 à 12:25 +0100, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : > Hi Mât, Hi Michael
> > Sorry for taking so long to respond. no Problem :) [...] > > Well, no, that's not quite true - setup-storage hasn't yet removed the > partition > table or the like, these are really the first commands. In our case, that's not setup-storage that removes the partition table, but the hardware RAID controller, when we remove the old RAID and re-make the same RAID level on the same disks. > Looking at the other > parts of your logs the partition /dev/sda9, which is what hosts the LVM, is in > place!? > > > PV/VG/LVremove(s) should be done after the command "parted -s /dev/sda > > set 9 lvm on" and before trying to "pvcreate"... Do you understand ? > > (maybe it's not really clear -> let me know) > > > > I understand, and you would be completely right - if it were the case that the > disk label had been wiped already... As said above, the disk label has already been wiped. > To me it seems that something about your > volume group is wrong!? Is this system still available in this state, i.e., > can > you either re-run the install or just go right were it stopped? Unfortunately no, this system isn't accessible anymore. But, maybe I can reproduce "this state" if necessary. > IMHO you should > still be able to do vgdisplay -a, etc. and try to do the removal of the > logical > volume manually. I agree with you, that's what I've done when the install hangs (just after "parted -s /dev/sda set 9 lvm on". But ordinary commands like lvremove, vgremove a,d pvremove didn't worked well. (message "Incorrect metadata area header checksum"). So I finally wiped LVM with "dd" directly in the partition. > One question maybe: What is the state you expected this system > to be in? Did you expect WOO_BASE to be there? No, I expect at least all the olds LVs to be removed (no WOO_BASE / WOO_LOG...) and the new parts KE / KE_LOGS to be created. > Could it be that /dev/sda9 had > been wiped in some earlier install and there's just some other information > left > that made setup-storage discover WOO_BASE? I don't think sda9 has been wiped manually. In my opinion, just the disk label has been destroyed. Now you asked me, I remember that "my user" told me "The 1st time the install hanged, then then I've retried". (I don't have logs of the 1st attempt) This is certainly why setup-storage has found previous LV/VG/PV in the logs I've sent. Now I better understand why you said "I understand, and you would be completely right - if it were the case that the disk label had been wiped already..." ;) > > Thanks a lot, > Michael Thx Mât
