LVM commands in a cluster reporting "Error locking on node" in RHEL

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Issue

  • LVM commands operating on clustered volume groups return errors such as "Error locking on node "
  Error locking on node dcs-unixeng-test3: Aborting.  LV pvmove0 is now incomplete and --partial was not specified.
  • While creating the pv and vg on a cluster node an error is seen:
# lvcreate -n new_lv -l 100 new_vg
Error locking on node node2.localdomain: Volume group for uuid not found: hKRe2KBpgj73fkm5P9ZAppdPsX3Se7EkHL0VzomUkq4gVIrTVeZvTr1ym67Keenh 
Aborting. Failed to activate new LV to wipe the start of it.
  • I added new shared storage devices in my cluster and am attempting to vgextend, lvextend, or lvcreate and see errors stating "Error locking on node"

Environment

  • Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS) 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 with the Resilient Storage Add On
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 with the Resilient Storage Add On
  • lvm2-cluster (clvmd)
  • One or more volume groups with the clustered ('c') attribute set

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