"Unable to drop cached metadata for VG" for clustered LVM VG on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

Unable to drop cached metadata for VG message when executing lvcreate/lvextend:

# lvcreate -L 14G -n swap1 vgcluster
  clvmd not running on node node2
  Unable to drop cached metadata for VG vgcluster.
  clvmd not running on node node2
# echo $?
5

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • 2 or more node Red Hat Cluster Suite cluster
  • Clustered LVM (CLVM) Volume Group shared across cluster nodes

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