VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

Error Messages

Understanding Messages

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• Description: These errors indicate that the volume cannot be started because the volume

contains no valid complete plexes. This can happen, for example, if disk failures have

caused all plexes to be unusable. It can also happen as a result of actions that caused all

plexes to become unusable (for example, forcing the dissociation of subdisks or detaching,

dissociation, or ofﬂining of plexes).

• Action: It is possible that this error results from a drive that failed to spin up. If so,

rebooting may ﬁx the problem. If that does not ﬁx the problem, then the only recourse is to

repair the disks involved with the plexes and restore the ﬁle system from a backup.

V-5-1-525

VxVM vxconfigd NOTICE V-5-1-525 Detached log for volume volume

• Description: The DRL or RAID-5 log for the named volume was detached as a result of a

disk failure, or as a result of the administrator removing a disk with vxdg-k rmdisk. A

failing disk is indicated by a "Detached disk" message.

• Action: If the log is mirrored, hot-relocation tries to relocate the failed log automatically.

Use either vxplexdis or vxsddis to remove the failing logs. Then, use vxassistaddlog (see

the vxassist(1M) manual page) to add a new log to the volume.

V-5-1-526

VxVM vxconfigd NOTICE V-5-1-526 Detached plex plex in volume volume

• Description: The speciﬁed plex was disabled as a result of a disk failure, or as a result of

the administrator removing a disk with vxdg-krmdisk. A failing disk is indicated by a

"Detached disk" message.

• Action: If hot-relocation is enabled, VERITAS Volume Manager 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.

V-5-1-527

VxVM vxconfigd NOTICE V-5-1-527 Detached subdisk subdisk in volume volume

• Description: The speciﬁed subdisk was disabled as a result of a disk failure, or as a result

of the administrator removing a disk with vxdg -krmdisk. A failing disk is indicated by a

"Detached disk" message.

• Action: If hot-relocation is enabled, VERITAS Volume Manager 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.