VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Migration Guide

Appendix A 77
A Conversion Error Messages
This appendix lists the error messages that you may encounter when conversting LVM
volume groups to VxVM disk groups and volumes. For each error message, a description is
provided of the problem, and the action that you can take to troubleshoot it.
Error messages that you may encounter during conversion include the following:
• Analysis indicates that this volume group cannot be converted because not all of the disks
and/or volumes in the LVM volume group are currently
• Analysis shows that there is insufficient private space available to convert this volume
group
• Device device_name has the following bad blocks... Cannot convert LVM Volume Group
• The conversion process was unable to deactivate the volume group vol_grp_name
• This Volume Group contains one or more logical volumes with mirrored dataSee
• Too many LVM Volumes to convert in this LVM Volume Group
• vgchange: Couldn’t deactivate volume group /dev/vol_grp
• vxdiskadm or vxvmconvert is already being run and these programs cannot run
concurrently
Analysis indicates that this volume group cannot be
converted because not all of the disks and/or volumes in the
LVM volume group are currently accessible
• Description
For successful conversion, all physical volumes in a volume group must be on-line, and all
logical volumes must be active and accessible.
• Action
Make sure the physical volumes in a volume group are on-line and the logical volumes are
active and not in use.