VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (August 2002)

Chapter 3, Error Messages

vxconfigd Error Messages

◆ Description: Two disk groups with the same name are tagged for auto-importing by

the same host. Diskgroupsare identiﬁed both by a simple name and by a longunique

identiﬁer (disk group ID) assigned when the disk group is created. Thus, this error

indicates that two disks indicate the same disk group name but a different disk group

ID.

VxVM does not allow you to create a disk group or import a disk group from another

machine, if that would cause a collision with a disk group that is already imported.

Therefore, this error is unlikely to occur under normal use. However, this error can

occur in the following two cases:

- A disk group cannot be auto-imported due to some temporary failure. If you

create a new disk group with the same name as the failed disk group and reboot,

the new disk group is importedﬁrst. Theauto-import ofthe older disk groupfails

because 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

alreadyauto-importing a disk group withthe samename, then reboot ofthat host

will yield this error.

◆ Action: Ifyou wantto importboth disk groups, then rename the second disk groupon

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: Errors in some configuration

copies: Disk disk, copy number: [Block number]: reason ...

◆ Description: During afailed diskgroupimport, someof the conﬁguration copies in the

named disk group were found to have format or other types of errors which make

those copies unusable. This message lists all conﬁguration copies that have

uncorrected errors, including any appropriate logical block number. If no other

reasons are displayed, then this may be the cause of the disk group import failure.

◆ Action: If some of the copies failed due to transient errors (such as cable failures), then

a reboot or reimport may succeed in importing the disk group. Otherwise, the disk

group may have to be recreated from scratch.

vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: Disk group group: Reimport of disk group failed:

reason

◆ Description: After vxconfigd was stopped and restarted (or disabled and then

enabled), VxVM failed to recreate the import of the indicated disk group. The reason

for failure is speciﬁed. Additional error messages may be displayed that give further

information describing the problem.

◆ Action: A major cause for this kind of failure is disk failures that were not addressed

before vxconfigd was stopped or disabled. If the problem is a transient disk failure,

then rebooting may take care of the condition.