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

Typically, unless a disk group was disabled due to transient errors, there is no
way to repair a disabled disk group. The disk group may have to be reconstructed
from scratch. If the disk group was disabled due to a transient error such as a
cabling problem, then a future reboot may not automatically import the named
disk group, due to the change in the system’s Veritas Volume Manager host ID.
In such a case, import the disk group directly using vxdg import with the -C
option.
V-5-1-569
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-569 Disk group group,Disk disk:Cannot
auto-import group: reason
Description:
On system startup, vxconfigd failed to import the disk group associated with the
named disk. A message related to the specific failure is given in reason. Additional
error messages may be displayed that give more information on the specific error.
In particular, this is often followed by:
VxVM vxconfigd ERROR V-5-1-579 Disk group group: Errors in some
configuration copies: Disk device, copy number: Block bno: error ...
The most common reason for auto-import failures is excessive numbers of disk
failures, making it impossible for VxVM to find correct copies of the disk group
configuration database and kernel update log. Disk groups usually have enough
copies of this configuration information to make such import failures unlikely.
A more serious failure is indicated by errors such as:
Configuration records are inconsistent
Disk group has no valid configuration copies
Duplicate record in configuration
Format error in configuration copy
Invalid block number
Invalid magic number
These errors indicate that all configuration copies have become corrupt (due to
disk failures, writing on the disk by an application or the administrator, or bugs
in VxVM).
Some correctable errors may be indicated by other error messages that appear in
conjunction with the auto-import failure message. Look up those other errors for
more information on their cause.
Failure of an auto-import implies that the volumes in that disk group will not be
available for use. If there are file systems on those volumes, then the system may
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