VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

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6 Error Messages
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 under stand the
context in which an error occurred. See Chapter 4, “Logging Commands and Transactions,” on
page 53 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.