It was a distro specific issue. Arch Linux has the lvm tools in /usr/sbin instead of /sbin. I made links for lvs, vgs, and vgchange and the issue cleared up. Reported a bug for the package.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Ján Tomko <jto...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/18/13 23:11, Luke Varnadore wrote: > > Libvirt 1.0.2-3 > > > > I am unable to use vg storage pools that are shared with the host. I was > > able to do this without issue an update before this one. Wondering if > > anyone else is seeing this behavior. > > > > I am on an Arch Linux system but I can't see why that would matter yet. > > > > Here is the error I get when trying to start a pool defined from the > > shared VG that my host, and guests share: > > > > Error starting pool 'vg_nimbus': internal error Child process > > (/sbin/vgchange -aln vg_nimbus) unexpected exit status 5: Can't > > deactivate volume group "vg_nimbus" with 7 open logical volume(s) > > It looks like we're trying to deactivate the volumes when starting the > pool, which is what happens when we can't refresh the pool succesfully. > > Deactivation fails, since some of the volumes are still open, and this > overwrites the previous error message. > > Try looking in libvirtd.log if there is another error message before > this one. > > Jan > -- Luke W Varnadore 727.697.7865
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