VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (August 2002)

vxplex Error Messages

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vxplex Error Messages

An error message from the plex administration utility, vxplex, indicates a problem with

the requested operation.

vxvm:vxplex: ERROR: Plex plex not associated with a snapshot volume.

◆ Description: An attempt was made to snap back a plex that is not from a snapshot

volume.

◆ Action: Specify a plex from a snapshot volume.

vxvm:vxplex: ERROR: Plex plex not attached.

◆ Description: An attempt was made to snap back a detached plex.

◆ Action: Reattach the snapshot plex to the snapshot volume.

vxvm:vxplex: ERROR: Plexes do not belong to the same snapshot volume.

◆ Description: An attempt was made to snap back plexes that belong to different

snapshot volumes.

◆ Action: Specify the plexes in separate invocations of vxplex snapback.

vxvm:vxplex: ERROR: Record volume is in disk group diskgroup1 plex is

in group diskgroup2.

◆ Description: An attempt was made to snap back a plex from a different disk group.

◆ Action: Move the snapshot volume into the same disk group as the original volume.

Cluster Error Messages

This section lists error messages that may occur with VxVM in a cluster environment.

Some of these messages may appear on the console; others are returned by vxclust.

Cannot assign minor minor

◆ Description: A slave attempted to join, but an existing volume on the slave has the

same minor number as a shared volume on the master.

This message should be accompanied by the following console message:

vxvm:vxconfigd minor number minor disk group group in use

◆ Action: Before retrying the join, use vxdg reminor (see the vxdg(1M) manual page)

to choose anew minornumber range eitherfor thedisk group on themaster orfor the

conﬂicting disk group on the slave. If there are open volumes in the disk group, the

reminor operation will not take effect until the disk group is deported and updated

(either explicitly or by rebooting the system).