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lvm2 package

  1. Bug #604572
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 604572

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Piotr Auksztulewicz (p-launchpad-net-hasiok-net) wrote :

I had a similar problem today when running *any* LVM tool, including vgbackup/restore, so I was basically unable to do anything with the LVM subsystem. The error message was:

  Parse error at byte 5 (line 1): unexpected token

I managed to figure (by strace'ing the vgdisplay process) that it is caused by corrupted /etc/lvm/cache/.cache file (most likely fscked up after a crash I had). Solution: delete the .cache file and run vgdisplay or whatever and it is recreated. I have verified that the recreated file is identical to the one I had on backup media.

So it is not much of a bug, but just a cryptic error message. It'll be prudent to change it to something meaningful - or just plainly recreate the cache file in such case and stop whining.