Volume encrypt and erase failed; unable to delete core storage logical volume

I was attempting to slowly migrate [MI-***] from early 2013 MBPRO to New iMac 5K w/Ceiling Level components.
Kept going through LONG process and then told me it couldn't create [MBPRO HD Home Username] "Jim" on volume or whatever. NO FileVault enabling/ still skittish from White iMac Encrypting Nightmare days... I don't even know -- I guess it's encrypted on Airport, but not on MBPRO.
Moved over Applications from outside User account fine; anything inside any User account NOT FINE.
Hooked up Thunderbolt cable between two macs and restarted MBPRO in T mode... displaying the lightning BOLT on screen that moves around to reduce Burn-in.
Was able to go onto desktop and use windows to drag n drop 190G of movies over to iMac... wondering how I was going to get all right settings over form FCP...
Bottom Line: I only have 16G left on MBPRO and need to MOVE video editing to be exclusive on 3T Fusion on Maxed out iMac 5K.
> Have concluded through whole process that I just want to clone the MBPRO and then delete most of the Larger Videos from MBPRO to recover some of my 760G SSD back.
So, I grabbed my 2T Airport Extreme and Hooked up the Cat5 LAN port to Cat5 input on back of NEW iMac; Now my MBPRO doesn't have to be locked up for days, because i can use TimeMachine backup to restore or clone the two macs... i hope.
Went into recovery mode and selected sub-Macintosh HD and attempted to erase; Result time after time after time: "Volume Encrypt and Erase failed." Reason: "Unable to delete the Core Storage logical volume." It dismounts it and I have to restart computer to get it back on. Funny thing is I don't have to use R anymore... which by the way, Command+R appears to be same as just plain old R when restarting... why is that?
This has become a "since Christmas" runaround session for me and I am sick of it.
Please help. I would've called Apple Care [and I did last night while driving... just to get advice on direction. I'm usually a pretty savvy PowerUser but this is driving me crazy.] but have to get things done for a meeting tomorrow. Can work on it after hours if someone can advise today on this post.
Thx,
Jim

I have taken some screenshots of the error I get and the state of my HDD in Disk Utility. I did have a weird thing happen after trying to repair using single user mode, where I reopened disk utility and the partitions were NOT greyed out and displayed the correct info concerning space available etc, although after verifying it then reverted back to greyed out with no info.

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Unable to delete the core storage logical volume

So I get the grey loading bar on the apple logo screen on bootup that get's to the end and then my iMac turns off. This happens everytime. I went into disk utility (CMD-R) and tried to format the partition and get the error message: Unable to delete the core storage logical volume - I should also mention that the OS X partition is greyed out and is marked as having 0GB free (which is false) and I can't select that partition to do a fresh install of OS X on.
I should mention that on my HDD I have a OS X partition and a bootcamp partitiion and this is the second time I have this issue. How can I fix my OS X partition without having reinstall bootcamp as I have 1TB of stuff on it.
Any ideas?

I have taken some screenshots of the error I get and the state of my HDD in Disk Utility. I did have a weird thing happen after trying to repair using single user mode, where I reopened disk utility and the partitions were NOT greyed out and displayed the correct info concerning space available etc, although after verifying it then reverted back to greyed out with no info.

Unable to encrypt the Core Storage logical volume

What's going on here?
dmd@lumen ~ $ diskutil cs encryptVolume 1C8F9744-6E91-4915-B9E1-6BDA6B4D2A9F
New passphrase for existing volume:
Confirm new passphrase:
Started CoreStorage operation on disk3 megafauna
Scheduling encryption of Core Storage Logical Volume
Error: -69694: Unable to encrypt the Core Storage logical volume
Underlying error: -536870212: Unknown error: -536870212
Here is the relevant volume information:
    +-> Logical Volume Family D556AA79-22D7-49A4-8ADD-8028F0646060
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 1C8F9744-6E91-4915-B9E1-6BDA6B4D2A9F
            Disk:               disk3
            Status:             Online
            Size (Total):       1149639159808 B (1.1 TB)
            Size (Converted):   -none-
            Revertible:         No
            LV Name:            megafauna
            Volume Name:        megafauna
            Content Hint:       Apple_HFS

Huh. Well, maybe that's why.
It was certainly happy enough to let me MAKE a LVG with multiple LVFs. Do you mean it just doesn't support encryption on a LVG with multiple LVFs?
+-- Logical Volume Group 736244AD-CDF2-4846-9343-2E2A4D487434
    =========================================================
    Name:         seagate1.5TDiskLVG
    Status:       Online
    Size:         1499957936128 B (1.5 TB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume E3B2A090-0BD7-433B-BDEA-7B19174FBAB1
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk2s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     1499957936128 B (1.5 TB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 55E5E43A-8EC9-4760-8F42-1B4AF17F3184
    |   ----------------------------------------------------------
    |   Encryption Status:       Unlocked
    |   Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
    |   Conversion Status:       Converting
    |   Conversion Direction:    forward
    |   Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
    |   Fully Secure:            No
    |   Passphrase Required:     Yes
    |   |
    |   +-> Logical Volume E0C47F65-A93B-4C33-B915-F33760A75716
    |       ---------------------------------------------------
    |       Disk:               disk4
    |       Status:             Online
    |       Size (Total):       350000001024 B (350.0 GB)
    |       Size (Converted):   211705397248 B (211.7 GB)
    |       Revertible:         No
    |       LV Name:            bonzai
    |       Volume Name:        bonzai
    |       Content Hint:       Apple_HFS
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family D556AA79-22D7-49A4-8ADD-8028F0646060
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 1C8F9744-6E91-4915-B9E1-6BDA6B4D2A9F
            Disk:               disk3
            Status:             Online
            Size (Total):       1149639159808 B (1.1 TB)
            Size (Converted):   -none-
            Revertible:         No
            LV Name:            megafauna
            Volume Name:        megafauna
            Content Hint:       Apple_HFS

Error: -69774: Couldn't bring the new Core Storage Logical Volume online

Hi,
I have a filevault encrypted drive (750GB).
I first noticed a problem when it prompted my for the FileVault passphrase (which I had stored in my keychain) and entering the correct passphrase resulted in the typical "error" response (the sideways "bouncing" entry field) asking me for the passphrase again.
So I get a list of the corestorage to get the UUID of the encrypted volume:
>diskutil corestorage list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group ********-****-****-****-************
    =========================================================
    Name:         750GB APPLE HDD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         749812400128 B (749.8 GB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume ********-****-****-****-************
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk2s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     749812400128 B (749.8 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family ********-****-****-****-************
        Encryption Status:       Locked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Complete
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            Yes
        Passphrase Required:     Yes
        |
        +-> Logical Volume ********-****-****-****-************
            Disk:                  -none-
            Status:                Locked
            Size (Total):          749493624832 B (749.5 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               750GB APPLE HDD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
Using command line I get the following response:
>diskutil corestorage unlockvolume UUID -stdinpassphrase
{UUID being the one of the last Logical Volume named "750GB APPLE HDD"}
Passphrase:
Started CoreStorage operation
Logical Volume successfully unlocked
Error: -69774: Couldn't bring the new Core Storage Logical Volume online
next I try:
>diskutil corestorage revert UUID -stdinpassphrase
Passphrase:
Started CoreStorage operation on disk3
Error: -69741: The target disk isn't eligible for reversion because it wasn't created by conversion or it is not part of a simple setup of exactly one logical and one physical volume
and then:
>diskutil corestorage unlockvolume UUID -stdinpassphrase
Passphrase:
Error beginning CoreStorage Logical Volume unlock: The target Core Storage volume is not locked (-69748)
looking at the kernel log I see the following interesting entries:
08.12.13 15:32:47,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorage: fsck_cs has finished for group "UUID" with status 0x00
08.12.13 15:32:47,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageFamily::unlockVEKs() failed to unwrap the vek, status = e00002bc
08.12.13 15:33:10,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageGroup::completeIORequest - error 0xe00002ca detected for LVG "750GB APPLE HDD" (UUID), pv UUID-of-Physical-Volume, near LV byte offset = 0.
08.12.13 15:34:51,000 kernel[0]: CoreStorageGroup::completeIORequest - error 0xe00002d9 detected for LVG "750GB APPLE HDD" (UUID), pv UUID-of-Physical-Volume, near LV byte offset = 0.
BTW: after a while I also hear a single clicking sound (head jumping back on drive) so I am not sure if it might be a physical disk failure.
Any ideas anyone?

Also, I've tried Terminal command: diskutil corestorage revert UUID -stdinpassphrase which returned "Error: -69854: A disk with a mount point is required"
Also, I've tried Terminal command: diskutil corestorage changeVolumePassword UUID -newpassphrase which returned "Error beginning CoreStorage Logical Volume unlock: The target Core Storage volume is not encrypted (-69755)"

-69774: Couldn't bring the new Core Storage Logical Volume online.....What Now?

Hey,
I'll start from the begining.
I have a 1TB that was running Mavericks, which I decided to perform Firevault 2. Anyway my hard drive crashed and now I have Mavericks running on a different 250 gig hard drive and have been trying to decrypt my original 1tb harddrive through terminal.
So I originally did the "diskutil corestorage unlockVolume UUID -stdinpassphrase thing and it said that it could not mount it but I notice that it was converting. So after 6 hours the converting stopped and now it says that decyrption is no longer neccessary and that it needs to be reverted. So I am try to revert it with terminal and it tells me that it is unable to find mount point. So ive been trying to mount the disk and comes up with the above error -69774: Couldn't bring the new Core Storage Logical Volume online. So does anybody have any suggestions??
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