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

78 Error messages
Understanding messages
V-5-1-587
VxVM vxdg ERROR V-5-1-587 disk group groupname : import failed:
reason
■ Description: The import of a disk group failed for the specified reason.
■ Action: The action to be taken depends on the reason given in the error
message:
Disk is in use by another host
No valid disk found containing disk group
The first message indicates that disks have been moved from a system that
has crashed or that failed to detect the group before the disk was moved.
The locks stored on the disks must be cleared.
The second message indicates that the disk group does not contain any
valid disks (not that it does not contain any disks). The disks may be
considered invalid due to a mismatch between the host ID in their
configuration copies and that stored in the /etc/vx/volboot file.
To clear locks on a specific set of devices, use the following command:
# vxdisk clearimport devicename ...
To clear the locks during import, use the following command:
# vxdg -C import diskgroup
Caution: Be careful when using the vxdisk clearimport or vxdg -C import
command on systems that have dual-ported disks. Clearing the locks allows
those disks to be accessed at the same time from multiple hosts and can
result in corrupted data.
An import operation fails if some disks for the disk group cannot be found
among the disk drives attached to the system.
Disk for disk group not found
Disk group has no valid configuration copies
The first message indicates a recoverable error.
The second message indicates a fatal error that requires hardware repair or
the creation of a new disk group, and recovery of the disk group
configuration and data:
If some of the disks in the disk group have failed, you can force the disk
group to be imported with this command:
# vxdg -f import diskgroup