VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

Error Messages
Understanding Messages
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• Description: This message is returned by the vxdmpadm utility when an attempt is made
to enable a controller that is not working or is not physically present.
• Action: Check hardware and see if the controller is present and whether I/O can be
performed through it.
V-5-1-2353
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-2353 Disk group group: Cannot recover temp
database: reason
Consider use of "vxconfigd -x cleartempdir" [see vxconfigd(1M)].
• Description: This can happen if you kill and restart vxconfigd, or if you disable and
enable it with vxdctldisable and vxdctlenable. This error indicates a failure related to
reading the file /var/vxvm/tempdb/group. This is a temporary file used to store
information that is used when recovering the state of an earlier vxconfigd. The file is
recreated on a reboot, so this error should never survive a reboot.
• Action: If you can reboot, do so. If you do not want to reboot, then do the following:
1. Ensure that no vxvol, vxplex, or vxsd processes are running.
Use ps-e to search for such processes, and use kill to kill any that you find. You may
have to run kill twice to make these processes go away. Killing utilities in this way
may make it difficult to make administrative changes to some volumes until the
system is rebooted.
2. Recreate the temporary database files for all imported disk groups using the following
command:
# vxconfigd -x cleartempdir 2> /dev/console
The vxvol, vxplex, and vxsd commands make use of these tempdb files to
communicate locking information. If the file is cleared, then locking information can
be lost. Without this locking information, two utilities can end up making
incompatible changes to the configuration of a volume.
V-5-1-2524
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1:2524 VOL_IO_DAEMON_SET failed: daemon count
must be above N while cluster
• Description: The number of VERITAS Volume Manager kernel daemons (vxiod) is less
than the minimum number needed to join a cluster.
• Action: Increase the number of daemons using vxiod.