VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (September 2004)

Error Messages

vxconﬁgd Notice Messages

Chapter 3

— Case 3: If disks have become duplicated using the dd command or any other disk

copying utility, choose which set of duplicate disks you want to exclude, and then

either edit the ﬁle /etc/vx/vxvm.exclude, or, if vxconﬁgd is running, select item 1

(suppress all paths through a controller from VxVM’s view) or item 2 (suppress a

path from VxVM’s view) from vxdiskadm option 17 (Prevent

multipathing/Suppress devices from VxVM’s view).

vxvm:vxconfigd: NOTICE: Volume volume entering degraded mode

• Description: Detaching a subdisk in the named RAID-5 volume has caused the

volume to enter “degraded” mode. While in degraded mode, performance of the

RAID-5 volume is substantially reduced. More importantly, failure of another

subdisk may leave the RAID-5 volume unusable. Also, if the RAID-5 volume does not

have an active log, then failure of the system may leave the volume unusable.

• Action: If hot-relocation is enabled, 3.5 objects affected by the disk failure are taken

care of automatically. Mail is sent to root indicating what actions were taken by

VxVM and what further actions the administrator should take.