@robert We did not use the ppa but changing all occurrences of vgchange in
the clvm script has been working so far.

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On Nov 22, 2012 1:11 PM, "Robert McGrath" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> We are experiencing this bug as well, and are very keen to see a fix.
> How is work going on this?
>
> The two work-arounds suggested above, have not succeeded for us;
> a) add the 'ppa:ivoks/ha' respoitory and pull the "clvm" from there.
> b) Manually edit "/etc./init.d/clvm" to add the "--monitor y" option to
> the vgchange commands in the "do_activate routine"
>
> Has anyone identified a work-around that works?
> If there is one, then can you help us in the short term and share it
> please?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833368
>
> Title:
>   clustered lvm commands fail with "activation/monitoring=0 is
>   incompatible with clustered Volume Group" error
>
> Status in “lvm2” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in “resource-agents” package in Ubuntu:
>   In Progress
>
> Bug description:
>   # lsb_release -rd
>   Description:    Ubuntu 11.04
>   Release:        11.04
>
>   # apt-cache policy lvm2
>   lvm2:
>     Installed: 2.02.66-4ubuntu2
>     Candidate: 2.02.66-4ubuntu2
>     Version table:
>    *** 2.02.66-4ubuntu2 0
>           500 http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ natty/main amd64 Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>   # apt-cache policy clvm
>   clvm:
>     Installed: 2.02.66-4ubuntu2
>     Candidate: 2.02.66-4ubuntu2
>     Version table:
>    *** 2.02.66-4ubuntu2 0
>           500 http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ natty/main amd64 Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
>   # apt-cache policy libdevmapper1.02.1
>   libdevmapper1.02.1:
>     Installed: 2:1.02.48-4ubuntu2
>     Candidate: 2:1.02.48-4ubuntu2
>     Version table:
>    *** 2:1.02.48-4ubuntu2 0
>           500 http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ natty/main amd64 Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
>
>   When trying to configure a clustered lvm2 using cman and clvm,  clvm
> start up and lvm commands fail with this error:
>
>   # vgchange -a y data_vg
>     activation/monitoring=0 is incompatible with clustered Volume Group
> "data_vg": Skipping.
>
>   if I use "--monitor y" then the command works as expected.
>
>   # vgchange -a y --monitor y data_vg
>     1 logical volume(s) in volume group "data_vg" now active
>
>
>   activation/monitoring is set to 1 in lvm.conf
>
>
>   The biggest problem is that I can't do LVM manipulation via interfaces
> such as virt-manager.
>
>
>   Here is the lvm.conf dump:
>
>   # lvm dumpconfig
>     devices {
>           dir="/dev"
>           scan="/dev"
>           preferred_names=[]
>           filter=["a|drbd.*|", "r|.*|"]
>           cache_dir="/etc/lvm/cache"
>           cache_file_prefix=""
>           write_cache_state=1
>           sysfs_scan=1
>           md_component_detection=1
>           md_chunk_alignment=1
>           data_alignment_detection=1
>           data_alignment=0
>           data_alignment_offset_detection=1
>           ignore_suspended_devices=0
>     }
>     dmeventd {
>           mirror_library="libdevmapper-event-lvm2mirror.so"
>           snapshot_library="libdevmapper-event-lvm2snapshot.so"
>     }
>     activation {
>           udev_sync=1
>           udev_rules=1
>           missing_stripe_filler="error"
>           reserved_stack=256
>           reserved_memory=8192
>           process_priority=-18
>           mirror_region_size=512
>           readahead="auto"
>           mirror_log_fault_policy="allocate"
>           mirror_image_fault_policy="remove"
>           use_mlockall=0
>           monitoring=1
>           polling_interval=15
>     }
>     global {
>           umask=63
>           test=0
>           units="h"
>           si_unit_consistency=1
>           activation=1
>           proc="/proc"
>           locking_type=3
>           wait_for_locks=1
>           fallback_to_clustered_locking=1
>           fallback_to_local_locking=1
>           locking_dir="/var/lock/lvm"
>           prioritise_write_locks=1
>           abort_on_internal_errors=0
>     }
>     shell {
>           history_size=100
>     }
>     backup {
>           backup=1
>           backup_dir="/etc/lvm/backup"
>           archive=1
>           archive_dir="/etc/lvm/archive"
>           retain_min=10
>           retain_days=30
>     }
>     log {
>           verbose=0
>           syslog=1
>           overwrite=0
>           level=0
>           indent=1
>           command_names=0
>           prefix="  "
>           activation=1
>     }
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