Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide Guide (September 2006)

57Error messages
Understanding messages
The unique message number consists of an alpha-numeric string that begins with the letter
“V”. For example, in the message number, V-5-1-3141, “V” indicates that this is a
Veritas product error message, the first numeric field (5) encodes the product (in this case,
VxVM), the second field (1) represents information about the product component, and the
third field (3141) is the message index. The text of the error message follows the message
number.
Messages
This section contains a list of messages that you may encounter during the operation of
Veritas Volume Manager 5.0. However, the list is not exhaustive and the second field
may contain the name of different command, driver or module from that shown here.
If you encounter a product error message, record the unique message number preceding
the text of the message. When contacting Veritas Technical Support, either by telephone
or by visiting the Veritas Technical Support website, be sure to provide the relevant
message number. Veritas Technical Support will use this message number to quickly
determine if there are TechNotes or other information available for you.
V-5-0-2
VxVM vxio WARNING V-5-0-2 object_type object_name block
offset:Uncorrectable read error ...
VxVM vxio WARNING V-5-0-2 object_type object_name block
offset:Uncorrectable write error ...
■ Description: A read or write operation from or to the specifiedVeritas Volume
Manager 5.0 object failed. An error is returned to the application.
■ Action: These errors may represent lost data. Data may need to be restored and failed
media may need to be repaired or replaced. Depending on the type of object failing
and on the type of recovery suggested for the object type, an appropriate recovery
operation may be necessary.
V-5-0-4
VxVM vxio WARNING V-5-0-4 Plex plex detached from volume volume
■ Description: An uncorrectable error was detected by the mirroring code and a mirror
copy was detached.
■ Action: To restore redundancy, it may be necessary to add another mirror. The disk on
which the failure occurred should be reformatted or replaced.
Note: This message may also appear during a plex detach operation in a cluster. In
this case, no action is required.