hi all!! my problem is that when the system start one of the mess. i got is: "/etc/lvmconf//lvm_lock: Permission denied". i have checked the file premission an everything was o.k. i cant use lvm now.
Is there a file called /etc/lvmconf/lvm_lock ? if so can you remove it ? (which proves you have permission to write to it). If this file doesnt exist can you create a temporary file in /etc/lvmconf (touch /etc/lvmconf/test - to prove you can write to this dir) ?
Im from Palmerston North, New Zealand, but somehow ended up in London...
to solve this problem, i have looked form file permission that anoder user took, and i have found some most importent file that he took ownership on tham. So i just chown on tham,
# mv /etc/lvmconf/lvm_lock /etc/lvmconf/lvm_lock.org # vgdisplay or vgscan or lvdisplay will recreate this lock file .then all your lvm commands will work
Hi, The problem is that lvdisplay, lvchange and other lv commands are not owned by root. Even if vgdisplay has the right permissions if lvdisplay has the wrong permissions, vgdisplay will fail
I had the same problem...it turns out that I had recently had an application which reqired root access to install the software. As part of the install process, the script changed the ownership of th vg* lv* and pv* commands in /usr/sbin from root to the application user. I changed ownership back to root:sys and made sure that permissions were set to -r-sr-xr-x, and voila! My lvm commands worked again.
You might want to check the ownership of these files too. If they're not root:sys, change them back.
