VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (August 2002)

vxconfigd Error Messages
52 VERITAS Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide
The most common reason for auto-import failures is excessive numbers of disk
failures, making it impossible for VxVM to find correct copies of the disk group
configuration database and kernel update log. Disk groups usually have enough
copies of this configuration information to make such import failures unlikely.
A more serious failure is indicated by errors such as:
Format error in configuration copy
Invalid magic number
Invalid block number
Duplicate record in configuration
Configuration records are inconsistent
These errors indicate that all configuration copies have become corrupt (due to disk
failures, writing on the disk by an application or the administrator, or bugs in VxVM).
Some correctable errors may be indicated by other error messages that appear in
conjunction with the auto-import failure message. Look up those other errors for
more information on their cause.
Failure of an auto-import implies that the volumes in that disk group will not be
available for use.If there are file systems on thosevolumes, thenthe system mayyield
further errors resulting from inability to access the volume when mounting the file
system.
◆ Action: If the error is clearly caused by excessive disk failures, then you may have to
recreate the disk group and restore contents of any volumes from a backup. There
may be other error messages that appear which provide further information. See
those othererrormessages for more informationon howto proceed. If those errors do
not make it clear how to proceed, contact Customer Support.
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Disk group group, Disk disk: Group name
collides with record in rootdg
◆ Description: The name of a disk group that is being imported conflicts with the name
of a record in the rootdg disk group. VxVM does not allow this kind of conflict
because of the way the /dev/vx/dsk directory is organized: devices corresponding
to records in the root disk group share this directory with subdirectories for each disk
group.
◆ Action: Either remove or rename the conflicting record in the root disk group, or
rename the disk group on import. See the vxdg(1M) manual page for information on
how to use the import operation to rename a disk group.
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Disk group group, Disk disk: Skip disk group
with duplicate name