vgimportclone fails with "Fatal: Current VG names could not be collected without errors, error: 5" in RHEL 5

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to execute vgimportclone to 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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