Hi: I'm new to this list.
I installed SL6 i386 on a Compaq laptop, circa 2007, in November 2011
and kept it updated. I used it mainly to try newer builds of MythTV
before updating my main Mythbox. It worked well, although closedown was
rarely clean.
Last week booting failed to complete; the lv_home superblock could not
be read. fdisk -l doesn't see it.
/etc/lvm/archive and /etc/lvm/backup are unchanged from initial
installation; one was created before, and one after, running /sbin/vgs
<options>. That file no no longer exists, and because the lvm2 package
has been removed, tools such as vgcfgrestore are also absent. My
attempt to reinstall lvm2 failed at the download stage, although I do
have a local copy of the previously installed package. The seems to be
some interaction with initscripts.
I did a quick search of the list archives but saw nothing that looked
relevant. There's a recently active Bugzilla thread here, but I suspect
it's dealing with more complex installations than mine.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800801
Perhaps a potential cause, other than unclean-shutdown. might be using
python binary-write mode to cut-and-copy multi-GB video files on a
32-bit machine; but that's really just speculation.
I would welcome suggestions.
John P
