First I created the physical volume, the volume group, one thin pool that almost used all the space of the volume group. Then I created and formated one thinly provisioned volume within this volume group. About a week later my PC had a power failure and was not shutdown cleanly. About two weeks later I opened the luks container and created a new thin volume. I tried to activate it, but I got the following error message.

Thin pool transaction_id=5, while expected: 6.

So the creation of the volume was successful, but the activation wasn't. I had to activate it manually because the name of the volume group was not listed in the "activation" "volume_list" in lvm.conf during the creation of the volume.

The volume group only has one physical volume on a luks encrypted hard drive. The hard drive does not have any partitions. It is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF). smartctl does not show any signs of a failure of the hard drive.

Kernel: 3.14.14
LVM version:     2.02.108(2) (2014-07-23)
Library version: 1.02.87 (2014-07-23)
Driver version:  4.27.0