Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

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Error Messages
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This chapter provides information on error messages associated with the VERITAS
Volume Manager (VxVM) configuration daemon (vxconfigd), the kernel, and other
utilities. It covers most informational, failure, and error messages displayed on the
console by vxconfigd, and by the VERITAS Volume Manager kernel driver, vxio. These
include some errors that are infrequently encountered and difficult to troubleshoot.
Note Some error messages described here may not apply to your system.
Clarifications are included to elaborate on the situation or problem that generated a
particular message. Wherever possible, a recovery procedure (Action) is provided to help
you to locate and correct the problem.
You may find it useful to consult the VxVM command and transaction logs to understand
the context in which an error occurred. See “Logging Commands and Transactions” on
page 37 for more information.
Logging Error Messages
VxVM provides the option of logging console output to a file. This logging is useful in that
any messages output just before a system crash will be available in the log file (presuming
that the crash does not result in file system corruption). vxconfigd controls whether
such logging is turned on or off. If enabled, the default log file is
/var/adm/configd.log.
vxconfigd also supports the use of syslog to log all of its regular console messages.
When this is enabled, all console output is directed through the syslog interface.
syslog and log file logging can be used together to provide reliable logging to a private
log file, along with distributed logging through syslogd.
Note syslog logging is enabled by default. Log file logging is disabled by default.