VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (August 2002)

Chapter 3, Error Messages

Cluster Error Messages

Upgrade operation failed: Version out of range for at least one node

◆ Description:Beforetrying toupgrade acluster byrunning vxdctl upgrade, all nodes

should beable to support the new protocolversion. An upgrade canfail if atleast one

of them does not support the new protocol version.

◆ Action: Make sure that the VERITAS Volume Manager package that supports the new

protocol version is installed on all nodes and retry the upgrade.

Version out of range for at least one node

◆ Description: One or more nodes in the cluster do not support the protocol version that

would result from a protocol upgrade.

◆ Action: Make sure that the latest version of VxVM is installed on all nodes in the

cluster.

Vol recovery in progress

◆ Description: A node that crashed attempted to rejoin the cluster before its DRL map

was merged into the recovery map.

◆ Action: Retry the join when the merge operation has completed.

vxconfigd not ready

node number: vxconfigd is not communicating properly

◆ Description: The vxconfigd daemon is not responding properly.

◆ Action: Stop and restart the vxconfigd daemon.

vxclust not there

◆ Description: An error during an attempt to join the cluster caused vxclust to fail.

This may be caused by the failure of another node during a join or by the failure of

vxclust.

◆ Action: Retry the join. An error message on the other node may clarify the problem.

vxiod count must be above number to join cluster

◆ Description: The number of VERITAS Volume Manager kernel daemons (vxiod) is

less than the minimum number needed to join the cluster.

◆ Action: Increase the number of daemons using vxiod.

vxvm:vxconfigd: group group exists

◆ Description: A slave tried to join a cluster, but ashared disk group already existsin the

cluster with the same name as one of its private disk groups.

◆ Action: Use the vxdg newname operation to rename either the shared disk group on

the master, or the private disk group on the slave.