VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

Error Messages
Understanding Messages
Chapter 692
V-5-1-1186
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-1186 Volume volume for mount point /usr not found in
bootdg disk group
• Description: The system is configured to boot with /usr mounted on a volume, but the
volume associated with /usr is not listed in the configuration of the boot disk group.
There are two possible causes of this error:
— Case 1: The /etc/fstab file was erroneously updated to indicate the device for the
/usr file system is a volume, but the volume named is not in the boot disk group. This
should happen only as a result of direct manipulation by the administrator.
— Case 2: The system somehow has a duplicate boot disk group, one of which contains
the /usr file system volume and one of which does not (or uses a different volume
name), and vxconfigd somehow chose the wrong boot disk group. Since vxconfigd
chooses the more recently accessed version of the boot disk group, this error can
happen if the system clock was updated incorrectly at some point (causing the
apparent access order of the two disk groups to be reversed). This can also happen if
some disk group was deported and assigned the same name as the boot disk group
with locks given to this host.
• Action: In case 1, boot the system on a CD-ROM or networking-mounted root file system.
If the root file system is defined on a volume, then start and mount the root volume. If the
root file system is not defined on a volume, mount the root file system directly. Edit the
/etc/fstab file to correct the entry for the /usr file system.
In case 2, either boot with all drives in the offending version of the boot disk group turned
off, or import and rename (see vxdg(1M)) the offending boot disk group from another host.
If you turn off drives, run the following command after booting:
# vxdg flush bootdg
This updates time stamps on the imported version of the boot disk group, bootdg, which
should make the correct version appear to be the more recently accessed. If this does not
correct the problem, contact VERITAS Technical Support.
V-5-1-1589
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-1589 enable failed: aborting
• Description: Regular startup of vxconfigd failed. This error can also result from the
command vxdctlenable.
• Action: The failure was fatal and vxconfigd was forced to exit. The most likely cause is
that the operating system is unable to create interprocess communication channels to
other utilities.