VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (August 2002)

vxconfigd Fatal Error Messages
46 VERITAS Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide
vxconfigd Fatal Error Messages
A fatal error message from the configuration daemon, vxconfigd, indicates a severe
problem with the operation of VxVM that prevents it from running.
vxvm:vxconfigd: FATAL ERROR: Disk group rootdg: Inconsistency -- Not
loaded into kernel
vxvm:vxconfigd: FATAL ERROR: Group group: Cannot update kernel
vxvm:vxconfigd: FATAL ERROR: Interprocess communication failure:
reason
vxvm:vxconfigd: FATAL ERROR: Invalid status stored in kernel
◆ Description: These internal errors should not occur unless there is a bug in VxVM.
◆ Action: Contact Customer Support.
vxvm:vxconfigd: FATAL ERROR: Memory allocation failure during startup
◆ Description: This implies that there is insufficient memory to start up VxVM.
◆ Action: This error should not normally occur, unless your system has very small
amounts of memory. Adding swap space probably will not help, because this error is
most likely to occur early in the boot sequence, before swap areas have been added.
vxvm:vxconfigd: FATAL ERROR: Rootdg cannot be imported during boot
◆ Description: This internal error should not occur unless there is a bug in VxVM.
◆ Action: Contact Customer Support.
vxvm:vxconfigd: FATAL ERROR: Unexpected threads failure: reason
◆ Description: This unexpected operating system error should not occur unless there is a
bug in VxVM or in the operating system multithreading libraries.
◆ Action: Contact Customer Support.
vxconfigd Error Messages
An error message from the configuration daemon, vxconfigd, indicates a problem with
the operation of VxVM that may prevent it from running effectively. Action should be
taken to correct the problem immediately.
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Cannot get all disks from the kernel: reason
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Cannot get all disk groups from the kernel:
reason
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Cannot get kernel transaction state: reason
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Cannot get private storage from kernel: reason
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Cannot get private storage size from kernel:
reason