Bug#315339: lvm2 version 2.01.12-2 complains about "Incorrect metadata area header checksum"

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Wed Sep 28 15:09:21 UTC 2005


On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:21:14PM +0300, Tarmo Toikkanen wrote:
>           All vgdisplay commands complain about "Incorrect metadata area
> header checksum" and trying to modify the LV partitions fails with
> something like this:

This means that the metadata on one device is wrong. vgcfgrestore should
rewrite them with a given state, but make sure that this config version
is correct.

> Downgrading to 2.01.04-5 makes these problems go away. Attached is my lvm2 config file.

No, it just don't longer warns as this version lacks the checks.

Bastian

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