VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

Error Messages

Understanding Messages

Chapter 688

• Action: Reinitialize the disks in the group with larger log areas. Note that this requires

that you restore data on the disks from backups. See the vxdisk(1M) manual page. To

reinitialize all of the disks, detach them from the group with which they are associated,

reinitialize and re-add them. Then deport and re-import the disk group to effect the

changes to the log areas for the group.

V-5-1-579

VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-579 Disk group group: Errors in some configuration

copies: Disk disk, copy number: [Block number]: reason ...

• Description: During a failed disk group import, some of the conﬁguration copies in the

named disk group were found to have format or other types of errors which make those

copies unusable. This message lists all conﬁguration copies that have uncorrected errors,

including any appropriate logical block number. If no other reasons are displayed, then

this may be the cause of the disk group import failure.

• Action: If some of the copies failed due to transient errors (such as cable failures), then a

reboot or re-import may succeed in importing the disk group. Otherwise, the disk group

conﬁguration may have to be restored. You can recreate a disk group conﬁguration by

using the procedures given in“Restoring a Disk Group Conﬁguration” on page 62 ".

V-5-1-583

VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-583 Disk group group: Reimport of disk group failed:

reason

• Description: After vxconfigd was stopped and restarted (or disabled and then enabled),

VxVM failed to recreate the import of the indicated disk group. The reason for failure is

speciﬁed. Additional error messages may be displayed that give further information

describing the problem.

• Action: A major cause for this kind of failure is disk failures that were not addressed

before vxconfigd was stopped or disabled. If the problem is a transient disk failure, then

rebooting may take care of the condition. The error may be accompanied by messages such

as ’’Disk group has no valid conﬁguration copies.’’This indicates that the disk group

conﬁguration copies have become corrupt (due to disk failures, writing on the disk by an

application or the administrator, or bugs in VxVM). You can recreate a disk group

conﬁguration by using the procedures given in “Restoring a Disk Group Conﬁguration” on

page 62".

V-5-1-587

VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-587 disk group groupname: import failed: reason

• Description: The import of a disk group failed for the speciﬁed reason