Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide Guide (September 2006)

70 Error messages
Understanding messages
■ Action: If you want to reset the kernel devices, track down and kill all processes that
have a volume or Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 tracing device open. Also, if any
volumes are mounted as file systems, unmount those file systems.
Any reason other than “A virtual disk device is open” does not normally occur unless
there is a bug in the operating system or in VxVM.
V-5-1-484
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-484 Cannot start volume volume, no valid
complete plexes
■ 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 vxplex dis or vxsd dis to remove the failing logs.
Then, use vxassist addlog (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 -k rmdisk. A failing disk is
indicated by a “Detached disk” message.
■ Action: If hot-relocation is enabled, Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 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.