Public bug reported: I am getting lots of error: physical volume pv0 not found when I have a kernel update. I managed to reproduce the problem with update-grub.
root@server8:~# update-grub error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. Generating grub.cfg ... error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-25-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-25-generic error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. error: physical volume pv0 not found. Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin done # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 root@server8:~# vgdisplay -vv Setting global/locking_type to 1 Setting global/wait_for_locks to 1 File-based locking selected. Setting global/locking_dir to /var/lock/lvm Finding all volume groups /dev/ram0: No label detected /dev/dm-0: No label detected /dev/ram1: No label detected /dev/sda1: No label detected /dev/ram2: No label detected /dev/ram3: No label detected /dev/ram4: No label detected /dev/ram5: No label detected /dev/sda5: No label detected /dev/ram6: No label detected /dev/sda6: No label detected /dev/ram7: No label detected /dev/sda7: lvm2 label detected /dev/ram8: No label detected /dev/ram9: No label detected /dev/ram10: No label detected /dev/ram11: No label detected /dev/ram12: No label detected /dev/ram13: No label detected /dev/ram14: No label detected /dev/ram15: No label detected /dev/sdb: lvm2 label detected Finding volume group "vg_server8" Locking /var/lock/lvm/V_vg_server8 RB /dev/sda7: lvm2 label detected /dev/sdb: lvm2 label detected --- Volume group --- VG Name vg_server8 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 2 Metadata Sequence No 2 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 1 Open LV 1 Max PV 0 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size 339.58 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 86932 Alloc PE / Size 84480 / 330.00 GiB Free PE / Size 2452 / 9.58 GiB VG UUID IrUtdp-Oeps-hBeW-Ou9w-EWcj-XaFj-dvf0lU --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg_server8/lv_home VG Name vg_server8 LV UUID kJwNH2-J001-REtG-tAUd-k7Uc-2qMw-LvyE1X LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 330.00 GiB Current LE 84480 Segments 2 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 252:0 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/sda7 PV UUID gNtuzp-QLgW-gB3u-W0wa-M6cF-DSUB-OpuU5i PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 39285 / 2452 PV Name /dev/sdb PV UUID XnCXZq-le9b-YO6L-tiW4-W2Dg-EsU2-izzrLR PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 47647 / 0 Unlocking /var/lock/lvm/V_vg_server8 root@server8:~# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg_server8/lv_home VG Name vg_server8 LV UUID kJwNH2-J001-REtG-tAUd-k7Uc-2qMw-LvyE1X LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 330.00 GiB Current LE 84480 Segments 2 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 252:0 root@server8:~# df -hT Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 ext4 29G 21G 7.1G 75% / udev devtmpfs 7.9G 12K 7.9G 1% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 3.2G 340K 3.2G 1% /run none tmpfs 5.0M 8.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock none tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /run/shm /dev/sda1 ext2 228M 27M 189M 13% /boot /dev/mapper/vg_server8-lv_home ext4 330G 157G 158G 50% /home ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: grub-pc 1.99-21ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jun 17 02:06:08 2012 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en TERM=xterm LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: grub2 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1014159 Title: update-grub error: physical volume pv0 not found. 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