> Von: Troy Dawson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> Philipp Cain wrote:
> > 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/lv
> m2-2.02.01-1.3.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.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> I'm not seeing device-mapper as part of the bugfix.  Was this just a
> dependancy or did I miss something in the bugzilla report?
> Troy

I simply installed device-mapper because it was shown as a requirement.
#rpm -qR lvm2
...
device-mapper >= 1.02.02-3
...

But there are changes and bugfixes in the new device-mapper which lvm seems
to depend on:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0099.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164959

Philipp.