Bug#542702: lvm2: pvcreate enters infinite loop

[Wojciech Wiśniewski]

Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.51-2
Severity: normal


pvcreate enters infinite loop when I try to use it on some partition. Command

pvcreate /dev/sdb1

hangs eating 100% CPU.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  dmsetup                     2:1.02.36-2  The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libc6                       2.10.1-0exp1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1          2:1.02.36-2  The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libreadline5                5.2-5        GNU readline and history libraries
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

lvm2 recommends no packages.

lvm2 suggests no packages.

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