From: Ignacio Vidal (ividal@BIYCSA.COM.AR)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 14:45:09 EDT
I did not want to, but there'll be a reboot (soon)...
Thank you for all the suggestions
Regards
Ignacio
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
> Enviado el: Monday, May 24, 2004 3:13 PM
> Para: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Asunto: Re: Locked rootvg
>
>
> You can't export rootvg, as it's in use.
> You could just try an "varyonvg rootvg". I don't hold out much hope
> for it, though. (I know you did an importvg of some description,
> but you used the "-b" flag before.)
>
> I would be fairly confident that a reboot would resolve this problem,
> if you can afford the outage. Although not very graceful, it would
> probably be quicker than trying to fix things. Of course, you won't
> learn anything and fixing the problem would be much more satisfying.
>
> --
> Simon Green
> Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ignacio Vidal [mailto:ividal@BIYCSA.COM.AR]
> > Sent: 24 May 2004 18:44
> > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Locked rootvg
> >
> >
> > I thought that chfs failed "because" of the lock on rootvg
> > (the lock was pre-existent).
> >
> > I tryed redefinevg (as suggested by Simon) but the result was:
> >
> > # redefinevg -d hdisk0 rootvg
> > 0516-574 redefinevg: Volume Group name rootvg is already used.
> > 0516-621 redefinevg: The Device Configuration Database is
> > inconsistent.
> > Execute exportvg rootvg followed by importvg to synchronize
> > the database.
> > # lsvg -o
> > vgfnclpatch
> > (... more vg's ...)
> > 0516-304 : Unable to find device id 000f8baf3322d3af in the Device
> > Configuration Database.
> > vgid=000f8baf3322d3af
> > #
> > # redefinevg -i 000f8baf3322d3af rootvg
> > 0516-574 redefinevg: Volume Group name rootvg is already used.
> > 0516-621 redefinevg: The Device Configuration Database is
> > inconsistent.
> > Execute exportvg rootvg followed by importvg to synchronize
> > the database.
> >
> > #
> >
> >
> > The question, now, is: can I execute an exportvg/importvg
> > without problems for data (is it safe...)?
>
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