Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > Thanks everyone for the feedback. Bob asked for more information about > what is going on with my system. Thanks for the story! It really does help make more sense of your setup there. > I have some dead or detached disks; since they might come back I > don't want to elimin

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks everyone for the feedback. Bob asked for more information about what is going on with my system. I have some dead or detached disks; since they might come back I don't want to eliminate them from LVM's knowledge yet. Here's the fuller story. It seems simplest to explain chronologically.

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:54:18PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > 3) Lots of updates > > I got a whole batch of updates, apparently coinciding with the release of > Debian 7.2. Am I missing something in sources.list? Before wheezy these > point releases were basically non-events for me because I

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > Setting up lvm2 (2.02.95-8) ... > [] Setting up LVM Volume Groups... Couldn't find device with uuid > GKasb9-Qo8q-vC83-S0N7-cvUd-nE0J-EEeMgv. > Couldn't find device with uuid eDiLHt-Pzom-tjdr-Ky12-Z6Gx-o3Iz-lYh1wL. > [snip more errors] > Refusing activation of partial

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:54:18PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I just did a big update with the latest wheezy update (using the aptitude > GUI). Several things seemed odd; and I'm not sure if everything is OK. > I'm hoping for some info about what's going on. I'll try to do my best. I'm sure some

mysteries with latest update

2013-10-12 Thread Ross Boylan
I just did a big update with the latest wheezy update (using the aptitude GUI). Several things seemed odd; and I'm not sure if everything is OK. I'm hoping for some info about what's going on. I have LVM volume groups that are missing disks, which produce errors during some operations (e.g., upda