Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Troubleshooting Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Error messages

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About error messages

■ How error messages are logged

■ Types of messages

About error messages

Informational, failure, and other error messages may be displayed on the console

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

VxVM kernel driver, vxio, and the various VxVM commands. These messages

may indicate errors that are infrequently encountered and difficult to troubleshoot.

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

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

understand the context in which an error occurred.

See “Command logs” on page 49.

How error messages are logged

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.

To enable logging of debug output to the default debug log file, edit the startup

script for vxconfigd.

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