A message, 'WARNING: lvmetad is running but disabled. Restart lvmetad before enabling it!', is shown when vgimportclone is run.

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Issue

  • A message, 'WARNING: lvmetad is running but disabled. Restart lvmetad before enabling it!', is shown when vgimportclone is run.
  • This message is shown even though use_lvmetad is enabled in /etc/lvm.conf.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
  • lvm2

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