VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (September 2004)

Error Messages
vxconfigd Error Messages
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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
• Description: Two disk groups with the same name are tagged for auto-importing by
the same host. Disk groups are identified both by a simple name and by a long
unique 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 imported first. The auto-import of the older disk group
fails 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
already auto-importing a disk group with the same name, then reboot of that
host will yield this error.
• Action: If you want to import both disk groups, then rename the second 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 : Errors in some configuration
copies: Disk
disk , copy number : [Block number]: reason ...
• Description: During a failed disk group import, some of 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