Unknown LVM metadata header
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
grub2 (Debian) |
Confirmed
|
Unknown
|
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grub2 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: grub2
update-grub2 appears to run successfully, but generates a lot of "error: Unknown LVM metadata header" messages in the process. LVM was created during install on a clean system (using ubuntu-
$ sudo update-grub2
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
Generating grub.cfg ...
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
Here's some extra info that may help:
$ mount
/dev/mapper/
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,
none on /sys/fs/
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noexec,
$ ls -la /boot
total 26783
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 2009-10-15 11:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2008-11-18 16:28 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 628340 2009-09-25 05:18 abi-2.6.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629174 2009-10-15 01:09 abi-2.6.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111218 2009-09-25 05:18 config-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111371 2009-10-15 01:09 config-
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3072 2009-10-15 11:58 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7297493 2008-11-17 15:49 initrd.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7283454 2009-10-15 11:27 initrd.
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2008-11-17 15:24 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128796 2009-09-28 05:17 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1657331 2009-09-25 05:18 System.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1664737 2009-10-15 01:09 System.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1196 2009-09-25 05:21 vmcoreinfo-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1196 2009-10-15 01:12 vmcoreinfo-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3873888 2009-09-25 05:18 vmlinuz-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3890400 2009-10-15 01:09 vmlinuz-
$ sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 974 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 30 31- 248976 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 31 973 943 7574647+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 15 11:59:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=C
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
Changed in grub2 (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Sorry, the update-grub2 output above is not complete. Here's the complete output:
$ sudo update-grub2 2.6.31- 14-generic img-2.6. 31-14-generic 2.6.31- 11-generic img-2.6. 31-11-generic
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
Generating grub.cfg ...
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
error: Unknown LVM metadata header
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
Incorrect metadata area header checksum
done