Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-9 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
I just upgraded to 2.6.18.4 and tried pvmove /dev/hdc1 /dev/sda1 Result (dmesg): device-mapper: mirror log: unrecognised sync argument to mirror log: 2 device-mapper: table: 254:3: mirror: Error creating mirror dirty log device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table device-mapper: mirror log: unrecognised sync argument to mirror log: 2 device-mapper: table: 254:3: mirror: Error creating mirror dirty log device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table device-mapper: table: device 254:3 too small for target device-mapper: table: 254:1: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table and the volume was inaccessible. after a pvmove --abort, the whole system hang. after reboot, the files and whole directories were missing, the filesystem was corrupted. After some digging around, this seems to have been reported some time ago and seems to be caused by an old version of libdevmapper1.02 (#383418). Unfortunately, the bug was closed. indeed, upgrading it made pvmove seemingly work (neither upgrading dmsetup nor lvm2 upgrades this library to the required version). I think I had 1.02.06-1 and upgraded to 1.02.12-1. Please, I urge you, add an antidependency to the kernel against old and incompatible versions of libdevmapper. This problem is *severe*, causes serious data loss, is a known issue, and is so easily avoidable and so hard to diagnose. Thanks a lot! -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.6 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
