VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (August 2002)

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Error Messages
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Introduction
This chapter provides information on error messages associated with the VERITAS
Volume Manager (VxVM) configuration daemon (vxconfigd), the kernel, and other
utilities. It covers most informational, failure, and error messages displayed on the
console by vxconfigd, and by theVERITAS Volume Managerkernel driver, vxio.These
include some errors that are infrequently encountered and difficult to troubleshoot.
Note Some error messages described here may not apply to your system.
Clarifications are included to elaborate on the situation or problem that generated a
particular message. Wherever possible, a recovery procedure (Action) is provided to help
you to locate and correct the problem.
Logging Error Messages
VxVM providesthe optionof loggingconsole output toa file.This logging isuseful inthat
any messagesoutput just before asystem crashwill be available in thelog file (presuming
that the crash does not result in file system corruption). vxconfigd controls whether
such logging is turned on or off. If enabled, the default log file is
/var/adm/configd.log.
vxconfigd also supports the use of syslog to log all of its regular console messages.
When this is enabled, all console output is directed through the syslog interface.
syslog and log file logging can be used together to provide reliable logging to a private
log file, along with distributed logging through syslogd.
Note Both syslog and log file logging are disabled by default.
To enablelogging of console output to the file /var/adm/configd.log, editthe startup
script for vxconfigd as described in “Configuring Logging in the Startup Script,” or
invoke vxconfigd under the C locale as shown here:
# vxconfigd [-x [1-9]] -x log