Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

Chapter

Error messages

This chapter provides information on error messages associated with the

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) configuration daemon (vxconfigd), the

kernel, and other utilities. It covers most informational, failure, and error

messages displayed on the console by vxconfigd, and by the Veritas Volume

Manager kernel driver, vxio. These include some errors that are infrequently

encountered and difficult to troubleshoot.

Note: Some error messages described here may not apply to your system.

Clarifications are included to elaborate on the situation or problem that

generated a particular message. Wherever possible, a recovery procedure

(Action) is provided to help you to locate and correct the problem.

You may find it useful to consult the VxVM command and transaction logs to

understand the context in which an error occurred. See “Logging commands and

transactions” on page 41 for more information.

Logging error messages

VxVM provides the option of logging debug messages to a file. This logging is

useful in that any messages output just before a system crash will be available in

the log file (presuming that the crash does not result in file system corruption).

If enabled, the default debug log file is /var/adm/configd.log.

vxconfigd also supports the use of syslog to log all of its regular console

messages. When this is enabled, all console output is directed through the

syslog interface.

syslog and log file logging can be used together to provide reliable logging to a

private log file, along with distributed logging through syslogd.