From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Rolf Jakob Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgscan -- invalid i/o protocol version In-Reply-To: from James Pattinson at "Jun 30, 1999 4:42:41 pm" Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 00:43:35 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@msede.com > Anyone seen this error msg before? Yes :-) > I'm running RH6 with kernel 2.2.10 and the LVM patches applied. I > originially tried to follow the HOWTO but on the first command i got: > > pvcreate -- ERROR: "/etc/lvmtab" doesn't exist; please run vgscan > > so i ran vgscan and got the message in the subject line. It's possible I'm Did you build LVM as a module ? Is the module loaded ? I get the same message when I run vgscan without modprobe lvm.o. > being really thick and I don't really know what I'm doing. Do I need the > devfs patches too? Not that I know of. I never tried it without devfs, but that has other reasons (having to remove the first SCSI disk is a strong argument for devfs :-) Rolf -- Rolf Jakob at home (rjakob@duffy1.franken.de) WWW : http://www.franken.de/users/duffy1/rjakob (KDE-Utils and CCS)