VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Reference Guide

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Error Messages
Volume Manager Configuration Daemon Error Messages
with group with duplicate name (more recently modified disk
groups have precedence over older disk groups).
• A disk group is deported from one host using the -h option to
cause the disk group to be auto-imported on reboot from another
host. If the second host was already auto-importing a disk group
with the same name, then reboot of that host will yield this error.
• Action
If you want to import both disk groups, then rename the second disk
group on import. See the vxdg(1M) manual page for information on
how to use the import operation to rename a disk group.
Disk group: Cannot recover temp database
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Disk group group :
Cannot recover temp database: reason
Consider use of "vxconfigd -x cleartempdir"
[see vxconfigd(1M)].
• Description
This can happen if you kill and restart vxconfigd or you if you
disable and enable it with vxdctl disable and vxdctl enable. This
error indicates a failure related to reading the file
/var/vxvm/tempdb/ groupname . This is a temporary file used to store
information that is used when recovering the state of an earlier
vxconfigd. The file is recreated on a reboot, so this error should
never survive a reboot.
• Action
If you can reboot, do so. If you do not want to reboot, then do the
following:
Step 1. Ensure that no vxvol, vxplex, or vxsd processes are running.
Use ps -e to search for such processes, and use kill to kill any that you
find. You may have to run kill twice to make these processes go away.
Killing utilities in this way may make it difficult to make administrative
changes to some volumes until the system is rebooted.
Step 2. Run the command:
vxconfigd -x cleartempdir 2> /dev/console