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/var/log/debug gets lots of messages any time an LVM snapshot is setup (lvcreate --size ${size}k --snapshot --name "$LVM_snapshot_device" "$LVM_device"). Here is a recent sample.
Code:
Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Loading config file: /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Opened /etc/lvm/lvm.conf RO

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Closed /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/syslog to 1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/level to 0

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/verbose to 0

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/indent to 1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/abort_on_internal_errors to 0

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/prefix to  

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/command_names to 0

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/test to 0

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/overwrite to 0

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: log/activation not found in config: defaulting to 0

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Logging initialised at Sat Feb 19 22:40:10 2011

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/umask to 63

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting devices/dir to /dev

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/proc to /proc

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/activation to 1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: global/suffix not found in config: defaulting to 1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/units to h

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/readahead to auto

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/udev_rules to 1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/udev_sync to 1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/missing_stripe_filler to error

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/si_unit_consistency to 1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: devices/preferred_names not found in config file: using built-in preferences

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Matcher built with 3 dfa states

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting devices/ignore_suspended_devices to 0

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting devices/cache_dir to /etc/lvm/cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting devices/write_cache_state to 1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Opened /etc/lvm/cache/.cache RO

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/home: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram11: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda11: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-var: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram10: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda10: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-home: Aliased to /dev/CW8/home in device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram12: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram6: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda6: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram13: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram14: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/var: Aliased to /dev/mapper/CW8-var in device cache (preferred name)

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram5: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda5: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sdb5: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/s_var: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram1: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda1: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sdb1: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/srv: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-opt: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram0: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-srv: Aliased to /dev/CW8/srv in device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-s_var: Aliased to /dev/CW8/s_var in device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram2: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda2: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/opt: Aliased to /dev/mapper/CW8-opt in device cache (preferred name)

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram8: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda8: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram9: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda9: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram15: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram3: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda3: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram4: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram7: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda7: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Loaded persistent filter cache from /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Closed /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/reserved_stack to 256

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/reserved_memory to 8192

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/process_priority to -18

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised format: lvm1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised format: pool

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised format: lvm2

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: global/format not found in config: defaulting to lvm2

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: lvmcache: initialised VG #orphans_lvm1

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: lvmcache: initialised VG #orphans_pool

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: lvmcache: initialised VG #orphans_lvm2

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: striped

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: zero

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: error

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: free

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting dmeventd/snapshot_library to libdevmapper-event-lvm2snapshot.so

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: snapshot

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: mirror

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting backup/retain_days to 30

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting backup/retain_min to 10

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting backup/archive_dir to /etc/lvm/archive

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting backup/backup_dir to /etc/lvm/backup

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: Locking memory

Feb 19 22:40:10 CW8 lvm[2163]: memlock_count_daemon inc to 1

Feb 19 22:46:29 CW8 lvm[2163]: Unlocking memory

Feb 19 22:46:29 CW8 lvm[2163]: memlock_count_daemon dec to 0

Feb 19 22:46:29 CW8 lvm[2163]: Dumping persistent device cache to /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 22:46:29 CW8 lvm[2163]: Locking /etc/lvm/cache/.cache (F_WRLCK, 1)

Feb 19 22:46:29 CW8 lvm[2163]: Opened /etc/lvm/cache/.cache RO

Feb 19 22:46:29 CW8 lvm[2163]: Loaded persistent filter cache from /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 22:46:29 CW8 lvm[2163]: Unlocking fd 8

Feb 19 22:46:29 CW8 lvm[2163]: Closed /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 22:46:29 CW8 lvm[2163]: Wiping internal VG cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Loading config file: /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Opened /etc/lvm/lvm.conf RO

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Closed /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/syslog to 1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/level to 0

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/verbose to 0

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/indent to 1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/abort_on_internal_errors to 0

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/prefix to  

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/command_names to 0

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/test to 0

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting log/overwrite to 0

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: log/activation not found in config: defaulting to 0

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Logging initialised at Sat Feb 19 22:53:05 2011

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/umask to 63

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting devices/dir to /dev

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/proc to /proc

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/activation to 1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: global/suffix not found in config: defaulting to 1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/units to h

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/readahead to auto

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/udev_rules to 1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/udev_sync to 1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/missing_stripe_filler to error

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting global/si_unit_consistency to 1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: devices/preferred_names not found in config file: using built-in preferences

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Matcher built with 3 dfa states

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting devices/ignore_suspended_devices to 0

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting devices/cache_dir to /etc/lvm/cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting devices/write_cache_state to 1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Opened /etc/lvm/cache/.cache RO

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/home: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram11: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda11: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-var: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram10: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda10: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-home: Aliased to /dev/CW8/home in device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram12: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram6: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda6: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram13: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram14: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/var: Aliased to /dev/mapper/CW8-var in device cache (preferred name)

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram5: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda5: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sdb5: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/s_var: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram1: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda1: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sdb1: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/srv: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-opt: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram0: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-srv: Aliased to /dev/CW8/srv in device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/mapper/CW8-s_var: Aliased to /dev/CW8/s_var in device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram2: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda2: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/CW8/opt: Aliased to /dev/mapper/CW8-opt in device cache (preferred name)

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram8: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda8: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram9: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda9: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram15: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram3: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda3: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram4: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/ram7: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: /dev/sda7: Added to device cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Loaded persistent filter cache from /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Closed /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/reserved_stack to 256

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/reserved_memory to 8192

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting activation/process_priority to -18

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised format: lvm1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised format: pool

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised format: lvm2

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: global/format not found in config: defaulting to lvm2

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: lvmcache: initialised VG #orphans_lvm1

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: lvmcache: initialised VG #orphans_pool

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: lvmcache: initialised VG #orphans_lvm2

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: striped

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: zero

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: error

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: free

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting dmeventd/snapshot_library to libdevmapper-event-lvm2snapshot.so

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: snapshot

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Initialised segtype: mirror

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting backup/retain_days to 30

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting backup/retain_min to 10

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting backup/archive_dir to /etc/lvm/archive

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Setting backup/backup_dir to /etc/lvm/backup

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: Locking memory

Feb 19 22:53:05 CW8 lvm[2163]: memlock_count_daemon inc to 1

Feb 19 23:08:32 CW8 lvm[2163]: Unlocking memory

Feb 19 23:08:32 CW8 lvm[2163]: memlock_count_daemon dec to 0

Feb 19 23:08:32 CW8 lvm[2163]: Dumping persistent device cache to /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 23:08:32 CW8 lvm[2163]: Locking /etc/lvm/cache/.cache (F_WRLCK, 1)

Feb 19 23:08:32 CW8 lvm[2163]: Opened /etc/lvm/cache/.cache RO

Feb 19 23:08:32 CW8 lvm[2163]: Loaded persistent filter cache from /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 23:08:32 CW8 lvm[2163]: Unlocking fd 8

Feb 19 23:08:32 CW8 lvm[2163]: Closed /etc/lvm/cache/.cache

Feb 19 23:08:32 CW8 lvm[2163]: Wiping internal VG cache
I don't know when these started appearing. /etc/lvm/lvm.conf is as-installed so should not be the cause. In the kernel configuration "Device Drivers" -> "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)", "Device mapper debugging support" is cleared so should not be the cause. Which leaves me with no idea what may be causing it :confused:

The distro is Slackware64 13.1.

Best

Charles