VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (September 2004)
Error Messages
vxconfigd Fatal Error Messages
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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.