Troy Dawson wrote:
> Philipp Cain wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> are their plans to release the RHEL4 erratum packages for lvm2
>> (lvm2-2.02.01-1.3.RHEL4.x86_64.rpm etc.) mentioned in RHBA-2006:0137-9
>> also for SL 4.2 ?
>>
>> After uprading to the latest kernel release I encountered severe
>> problems with lvm snapshots which might/should be solved with
>> lvm2-2.02.01.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>     Philipp.
>
> Hi Philipp,
> Since that wasn't a security errata, but a bug fix, we hadn't planned
> on putting it in with the security errata.
> But if one of our security errata's (the kernel) causes the need to
> upgrade lvm2, then we can think of putting it in.
>
> It's currently in the rolling area
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/i386/SL/RPMS/lvm2-2.02.01-1.3.RHEL4.i386.rpm
>
>
> Can you install it and find out if indeed, it fixes your problem.
> Also, were you having this problem before you upgraded the kernel?
>
> Troy
Hi Troy,

I installed lvm2-2.02.01 together with the new device-mapper rpm from
40rolling.
The problem, which didn't occur before upgrading from kernel
2.6.9-22.0.1 to 2.6.9-34, is fixed now.

Some background info:  During our daily backup of a data partition an
LVM snapshot is created. With the new kernel 2.6.9-34 the removal of the
snapshot failed - lvremove hangs, system load is increasing rapidly.
The reason seems to be a change in the kernel lvm support that requires
new lvm tools  (see eg.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168824).

Philipp.