My setup uses 2 LVM partitions, root and swap_1

I'm getting an error message at shutdown that says "can't deactivate volume group terrarium with 2 open logical volumes".

What should I do about this?

thanks

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...O.html#lvm2faq
http://www.suse.de/de/whitepapers/lvm/index.html

Maybe one of those can shed some light...

the second looks a lot like the first, and the third was unavailable.

This looks to me like a LVM shutdown script problem that's unique to Debian (I never had problems with this in FC6). . . and I may have done some damage in trying to fix it. It no longer hangs on shutdown.


My latest problem:
can't deactivate volume group terrarium with 2 open logical volumes

/etc/rcd0.d/S50lvm.save Permission denied.

When I was trying to alter lvm shutdown scripts, I hadn't noticed that the files were named S40, S50 in the order that the shutdown script picks them up... I had multiple S50 files.

But I'm still left with the "can't deactivate" problem.

The text body is essentially the same though one is the official tldp text. The other I added because of the FAQs...

The third is available for me . <edit> Oooops. The Suse page only and the german texts, not the whitepaper in english. Try this link then:
http://www.suse.de/en/business/certi...whitepaper.pdf
and search for lvm there, maybe one of the results can help...</edit>

Were "man" or "info" of no help how to force volume deactivation? I mean they refer to the other lvm related commands...

What owner and permissions do the scripts have? Do they need the sticky bit (calling further scripts)? What does "lsof" say? Are there maybe files still open?

I know
vgchange -a n
but not where to put them.

I'll have to get back to you on the rest.

thanks

?What do you mean "where to put them"? I somehow don't get what you mean by that...

Do you get an error message when you do "vgchange -a n"?