VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

Error Messages

Understanding Messages

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• Description: A node failed to join a cluster. This may be caused by the node being unable

to see all the shared disks. Other error messages may provide more information about the

disks that cannot be found.

• Action: Use the vxdisk-slist command on the master node to see what disks should be

visible to the slave node. Then check that the operating system and VxVM on the failed

node can also see these disks. If the operating system cannot see the disks, check the

cabling and hardware conﬁguration of the node. If only VxVM cannot see the disks, use

the vxdctlenable command to make it scan again for the disks. When the disks are visible

to VxVM on the node, retry the join.

V-5-0-166

VxVM vxio WARNING V-5-0-166 Failed to log the detach of the DRL volume

volume

• Description: An attempt failed to write a kernel log entry indicating the loss of a DRL

volume. The attempted write to the log failed either because the kernel log is full, or

because of a write error to the drive. The volume becomes detached.

• Action: Messages about log failures are usually fatal, unless the problem is transient.

However, the kernel log is sufﬁciently redundant that such errors are unlikely to occur.

If the problem is not transient (that is, the drive cannot be ﬁxed and brought back online

without data loss), recreate the disk group from scratch and restore all of its volumes from

backups. Even if the problem is transient, reboot the system after correcting the problem.

If error messages are seen from the disk driver, it is likely that the last copy of the log

failed due to a disk error. Replace the failed drive in the disk group. The log re-initializes

on the new drive. Finally force the failed volume into an active state and recover the data.

V-5-0-168

VxVM vxio WARNING V-5-0-168 Failure in RAID-5 logging operation

• Description: Indicates that a RAID-5 log has failed.

• Action: To restore RAID-5 logging to a RAID-5 volume, create a new log plex and attach it

to the volume.

V-5-0-181

VxVM vxio WARNING V-5-0-181 Illegal vminor encountered

• Description: An attempt was made to open a volume device before vxconfigd loaded the

volume conﬁguration.