on SL 4.1, both i386 and x86_64, both on xeon and amd machines, I get the following
error when trying to create am LVM phyisical volume.
I get the same output on any pv and vg command.
[root@myhosy ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdb1
connect() failed on local socket: Connection refused
Locking type 2 initialisation failed.
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