vgimportclone fails with "Fatal: Current VG names could not be collected without errors, error: 5" in RHEL 5
Issue
- Unable to execute
vgimportcloneto rename duplicate volume group
# vgimportclone /dev/mapper/mpath2
Fatal: Current VG names could not be collected without errors, error: 5
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- A duplicate or cloned LVM volume group
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