LVM thinpool issue: no volume groups found lvs -av

[Haisam Khalil]

Ok so here’s the story. Tlaurion was helpful enough over the past few days to get me here, but now I’m stuck.

Issue: It started with an lvm thinpool issue I thought I solved by deleting excess appVMs and fstrim’ing everything, including dom0. I updated dom0 one day, did the usual dance with signing checksums, etc. I turned off power to the laptop while booting up again, because I forgot to actually verify my totp at the HEADS menu instead of just letting it load up. I reboot hoping to just load up like I usually. All of a sudden, I’m in the dracut emergency shell for the first time.

From there we were in trouble. We tried and failed to successfully repair qubes_dom0/pool00 following some instructions we sorted. 

Today when I run a lvs -av, no volume groups are found.

I will be able to reply to this post directly and provide screenshots of everything done prior to this. But it’s this new issue that seems to be a show stopper for me. Can I salvage this? Or do I just reinstall and call it lost? 

Let me know and thank you.

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Best,

Haisam Khalil
C: 347-397-0124

[awokd]

Haisam Khalil:

Did you do a "vgchange -ay" to activate whatever's available? Does pvs
list any?

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