Ben's questions

I've run into an issue with my KVM host which runs VMs on a LVM volume. As of last night the logical volumes are no longer seen as such (I can't create snapshots of them even though I have been for months now).

Running any scans all result in nothing being found:

[root@apollo ~]# pvscan
No matching physical volumes found

[root@apollo ~]# vgscan
Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
No volume groups found

root@apollo ~]# lvscan
No volume groups found

If I try restoring the VG conf backup from /etc/lvm/backups/vg0 I get the following error:

[root@apollo ~]# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvm/backup/vg0 vg0
Couldn't find device with uuid 20zG25-H8MU-UQPf-u0hD-NftW-ngsC-mG63dt.
Cannot restore Volume Group vg0 with 1 PVs marked as missing.
Restore failed.

/etc/lvm/backups/vg0 has the following for the physical volume:

physical_volumes {

            pv0 {
                    id = "20zG25-H8MU-UQPf-u0hD-NftW-ngsC-mG63dt"
                    device = "/dev/sda5"    # Hint only

                    status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
                    flags = []
                    dev_size = 4292870143   # 1.99902 Terabytes
                    pe_start = 384
                    pe_count = 524031       # 1.99902 Terabytes
            }
}

fdisk -l /dev/sda shows the following:

[root@apollo ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 6000.1 GB, 6000069312512 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 5722112 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000188b7

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               2       32768    33553408   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2           32769       33280      524288   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           33281     1081856  1073741824   83  Linux
/dev/sda4         1081857     3177984  2146435072   85  Linux extended
/dev/sda5         1081857     3177984  2146435071+  8e  Linux LVM

The server is running a 4 disk HW RAID10 which seems perfectly healthy according to megacli and smartd.

The only odd message in /var/log/messages is the following which shows up every couple of hours:

Jun 10 09:41:57 apollo udevd[527]: failed to create queue file: No space left on device

Output of df -h

[root@apollo ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3            1016G  119G  847G  13% /
/dev/sda2             508M   67M  416M  14% /boot

Does anyone have any ideas what to do next? The VMs are all running fine at the moment apart from not being able to snapshot them.

Updated with extra info It's not a lack of inodes:

[root@apollo ~]# df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda3            67108864   48066 67060798    1% /
/dev/sda2              32768      47   32721    1% /boot

pvs, vgs & lvs either output nothing or "No volume groups found".

On a server with Plesk installed I have added a CNAME rule pointing from one of the sites subdomains to an external website.

I have checked the named configuration for that domain name and it shows the CNAME however the sub domain just points to the default server page and ignores the CNAME rule. Named has been restarted and I've also run the rvmng reconfigure-vhost command.

I edited another server to test this, on cPanel, and it works fine.

The conf file for the domain:

; *** Ts file is automatically generated by Plesk ***
$TTL    86400

@       IN      SOA     ns.example.com. cf.example1.com. (
                    1292946742      ; Serial
                    10800   ; Refresh
                    3600    ; Retry
                    604800  ; Expire
                    10800 ) ; Minimum

example.com.             IN NS   ns.example.com.
ns.example.com.          IN A    xx.xxx.xxx.xx
example.com.             IN A    xx.xxx.xxx.xx
webmail.example.com.             IN A    xx.xxx.xxx.xx
mail.example.com.                IN A    xx.xxx.xxx.xx
beta.example.com.                IN A    xx.xxx.xxx.xx
ftp.example.com.                 IN CNAME        example.com.
www.example.com.                 IN CNAME        example.com.
login.example.com.               IN CNAME        socialize.gigya.com.
example.com.             IN MX  10 webmail.example.com.

You can see the CNAME rule in the file but it just gets ignored?

Thanks in advance for any help.

EDIT: I just noticed that the site's nameservers aren't on this server but the default doteasy ones so I assume that may be why the rule is ignored. I will change the nameservers and see if that solves it. I'll update here with the outcome. Thanks guys for your tips so far.

EDIT 2: The server only has one IP address so it won't be possible to use custom name servers. Could this be the cause though? When I run dig cname login.example.com it returns:

; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> cname login.example.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20919
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;login.example.com.     IN  CNAME

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
example.com.        3600    IN  SOA dns7.doteasy.com. hostmaster.doteasy.com.     2010070101 3600 1800 86400 10800

;; Query time: 258 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Dec 21 20:37:22 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 95

I take it this is why the CNAME is being ignored? As the DNS isn't actually hosted on our server?

UPDATE The issue was solved, offsite DNS was why the rules were ignored. Thank you all for your help.