/sbin/pvcreate segfaults with -B flag after Sep 2010 OE update

[Mikko Niskanen_1]

Facts:

2 x rx4640 + HP-UX 11.31 with Sep'2010 update applied, newest DRD installed:
DynRootDisk B.1131.A.3.7.4 Dynamic Root Disk

Finally after a few weeks since OEM update to Sep 2010, decided to overwrite the clone disk. Source disks are internal 73GB SCSI ones, clone target is a 75GB SAN slice from EVA.

Result:

root /etc # drd clone -t /dev/disk/disk23 -x overwrite=true

======= 09/01/10 11:30:11 EETDSTDST BEGIN T Clone System Image
(user=root) (jobid=server)

* Reading Current System Information
* Selecting System Image To Clone
* Converting legacy Dsf "/dev/dsk/c2t1d0" to "/dev/disk/disk15"
* Converting legacy Dsf "/dev/dsk/c3t0d0" to "/dev/disk/disk16"
* Selecting Target Disk
WARNING: Could not find "/dev/disk/disk20" in inventory
* The disk "/dev/disk/disk23" contains data which will be overwritten.
* Selecting Volume Manager For New System Image
* Analyzing For System Image Cloning
* Creating New File Systems
ERROR: Clone file system creation fails.
- Creating the target file systems fails.
- Command "/opt/drd/lbin/drdconfigure" fails with the return code 255.
The errors written by the command are displayed below:
- Start of errors written by /opt/drd/lbin/drdconfigure:
- * Using LVM for disk
0/5/1/1.0x50001fe1500903b8.0x4004000000000000
(disk23_p2), group: drd00
* Using LVM for disk
0/2/1/1.0x50001fe1500903b9.0x4004000000000000
(disk23_p2), group: drd00
* Using LVM for disk
0/2/1/1.0x50001fe1500903bc.0x4004000000000000
(disk23_p2), group: drd00
* Using LVM for disk
0/5/1/1.0x50001fe1500903bd.0x4004000000000000
(disk23_p2), group: drd00
* Creating LVM physical volume "/dev/rdisk/disk23_p2"
(0/2/1/1.0x50001fe1500903bc.0x4004000000000000).
NOTE: run_cmd: Process: 29926 (/sbin/pvcreate): killed by signal:
11 (core
dumped).
ERROR: Command "/sbin/pvcreate -f -B /dev/rdisk/disk23_p2" failed.

- End of errors written by /opt/drd/lbin/drdconfigure
- Command "/opt/drd/lbin/drdconfigure" fails with the return code 255.
The entire output from the command is given below:
- Start of output from /opt/drd/lbin/drdconfigure:
- insf: Installing special files for pseudo driver devkrs

- End of output from /opt/drd/lbin/drdconfigure
* Creating New File Systems failed with 1 error.
* Unmounting New System Image Clone
* Cleaning up after clone errors.

======= 09/01/10 11:30:24 EETDSTDST END T Clone System Image failed with 1
error. (user=root) (jobid=server)

Verify from command line:

root /usr/sbin # /sbin/pvcreate -f -B /dev/rdisk/disk23_p2
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) /sbin/pvcreate -f -B /dev/rdisk/disk23_p2

So statically linked pvcreate (or sbin/lvmcmd) throws towel in. But the dymanically linked
/usr/sbin/lvm_wrapper is quite happy:

root /usr/sbin # /usr/sbin/pvcreate -f -B /dev/rdisk/disk23_p2
Physical volume "/dev/rdisk/disk23_p2" has been successfully created.

Okay, how about removing?

root /usr/sbin # /sbin/pvremove /dev/rdisk/disk23_p2
The physical volume associated with "/dev/rdisk/disk23_p2" has been removed.

OK, so good so far, without any flags?

root /usr/sbin # /sbin/pvcreate /dev/rdisk/disk23_p2
Physical volume "/dev/rdisk/disk23_p2" has been successfully created.

Ok, so /sbin/lvmcmd does work at least somehow. Bootable?

root /usr/sbin # /sbin/pvcreate -B /dev/rdisk/disk23_p2
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) /sbin/pvcreate -B /dev/rdisk/disk23_p2

Ahha, so it's -B flag. lvm_wrapper?

root /usr/sbin # /usr/sbin/pvcreate -B /dev/rdisk/disk23_p2
Physical volume "/dev/rdisk/disk23_p2" has been successfully created.

So that works.

Little tweaking:

root /sbin # mv pvcreate pvcreate.old
root /sbin # ln -s /usr/sbin/pvcreate pvcreate

After that DRD goes happily forward.

On the other hand, I've got another HP-UX 11.31 box with March 2010 OE update + newest DRD installed, and that combination works as advertised.

So, anyone else seen this?