lvm2 and device-mapper - RESOLVED

[extraspecialbitter]

I'm not a Linux Newbie, but I'm brand new to Linux Mint. I am trying to mount some Red Hat-configured logical volumes on my Linux Mint system but have run into a roadblock. I've installed lvm2, libdevmapper1.02 and libdevmapper-dev, but can't seem to get beyond "vgscan". Here's what happens:

Code: Select all

pablo@mintyfresh=> sudo vgscan
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "test_group" using metadata type lvm2
  Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
pablo@mintyfresh=> sudo vgchange -a y
  /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
  Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
  Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
  /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
  Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
  Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
  Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.20 (2007-06-15)(compat) and kernel driver
  0 logical volume(s) in volume group "test_group" now active
  0 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active


The only two versions of libdevmapper available seemed to be libdevmapper1.02 and libdevmapper1.02.1. Do I need to get a more updated version, or do I need to load some kernel modules to make this work? Thanks in advance...

[Fred]

extraspecialbitter,

I suspect that you are right about the kernel modules, or lack there of. But don't know that is the case.

I know this isn't very helpful but didn't want you to think you were being ignored.

I'll poke around and see what I can find out.

Fred

[extraspecialbitter]

Fred - thanks for the reply. I've been digging around on the Ubuntu forums, but so far I haven't found anything definitive.

[extraspecialbitter]

I should have realized that I needed to created a new initrd file. This post showed me how to do it using update-initramfs (where I had previously used "mkinitrd". The syntax was as follows:

Code: Select all

sudo update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.22-14-generic

After rebooting, I was able to perform the "sudo lvchange -a y" command without errors.