Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide Guide (September 2006)

81Error messages
Understanding messages
being used for the /var file system. Also verify that the encapsulation (if
configured) of your boot disk is complete and correct.
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-1589 enable failed: transactions are
disabled
■ Description: Regular startup of vxconfigd failed. This error can also result from
the command vxdctl enable.
vxconfigd is continuing to run, but no configuration updates are possible until the
error condition is repaired.
Additionally, this may be followed with:
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-579 Disk group group: Errors in some
configuration copies:
Disk device, copy number: Block bno: error ...
Other error messages may be displayed that further indicate the underlying problem.
■ Action: Evaluate the error messages to determine the root cause of the problem.
Make changes suggested by the errors and then try rerunning the command.
If the “Errors in some configuration copies” error occurs again, that may indicate the
real problem lies with the configuration copies in the disk group. You can recreate a
disk group configuration by using the procedures given in “Restoring a disk group
configuration” on page 49.
V-5-1-2020
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-2020 Cannot kill existing daemon,
pid=process_ID
■ Description: The -k (kill existing vxconfigd process) option was specified, but a
running configuration daemon process could not be killed. A configuration daemon
process, for purposes of this discussion, is any process that opens the /dev/vx/
config device (only one process can open that device at a time). If there is a
configuration daemon process already running, then the -k option causes a
SIGKILL signal to be sent to that process. If, within a certain period of time, there is
still a running configuration daemon process, the above error message is displayed.
■ Action: This error can result from a kernel error that has made the configuration
daemon process unkillable, from some other kind of kernel error, or from some other
user starting another configuration daemon process after the SIGKILL signal. This
last condition can be tested for by running vxconfigd -k again. If the error
message reappears, contact Veritas Technical Support.
V-5-1-2197
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-2197 node N: missing vxconfigd
■ Description: The vxconfigd daemon is not running on the indicated cluster node.
■ Action: Restart the vxconfigd daemon.