Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 593871
cannot activate VG with missing PV(s)
Last modified: 2010-07-02 16:49:52 EDT
Created attachment 415273 [details] traceback Description of problem: Created an updates image with all changes since v13.21.39-1 and booted 20100512 Workstation DVD with the updates. After formatting some of the partitions it fails with the error: cannot activate VG with missing PV(s) How reproducible: Always I modified my updates.img to include only the test I was trying to test and it ran fine. If I create an updates with changes since 13.21.43 it has my changes for mount sanity and storage module changes, which fails. If I remove the storage changes, leaving only my changes since 13.21.43 it runs correctly.
Oh, brown paper bag bug. I made 2 innocent looking changes to the patchset in question after some discussions with dlehman (but this is entirely my fault) and I did not retest. The exception which you are seeing used to get thrown based on this check: if len(self.parents) < self.pvCount: Which I changed to: if not self.complete: Which boils down to: if len(self.parents) != self.pvCount: But self.pvCount never gets set for non pre existing vgs, so it is always 0, we didn't trip over this before because of the (wrong) < check in the original code. Patch coming up. Note to PM and QA, this bug makes any installs involving lvm fail, can we get acks please.
Fixed in anaconda-13.21.44-1, moving to modified.
The traceback is: anaconda 13.21.39 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/tmp/updates/storage/devices.py", line 1930, in setup raise DeviceError("cannot activate VG with missing PV(s)", self.name) File "/tmp/updates/storage/devices.py", line 1969, in create self.setup() File "/tmp/updates/storage/deviceaction.py", line 203, in execute self.device.create(intf=intf) File "/tmp/updates/storage/devicetree.py", line 701, in processActions action.execute(intf=self.intf) File "/tmp/updates/storage/__init__.py", line 292, in doIt self.devicetree.processActions() File "/tmp/updates/packages.py", line 109, in turnOnFilesystems anaconda.id.storage.doIt() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 205, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 126, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/tmp/updates/gui.py", line 1423, in setScreen self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() File "/tmp/updates/gui.py", line 1336, in nextClicked self.setScreen () DeviceError: ('cannot activate VG with missing PV(s)', 'VolGroup')
Perfect! This fixes the problem for me. I retested with the same setup, only difference was the updates included this morning's commits, and it works fine.
With snapshot #5 (0523.0) I did two installs: 1) Using defaults (LVM) with 2 disks 2) Using all space (LVM) with only the second disk There was no error. Moving to VERIFIED.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beta 2 is now available and should resolve the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you.