From: Erwin Broschinski (broschi@id.ethz.ch)
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 05:14:04 EDT
Hi Sun managers
I am running Sol 8 on a E450 with Veritas VxVM 3.5.
root[~]:#pkginfo -l VRTSvxvm
PKGINST: VRTSvxvm
NAME: VERITAS Volume Manager, Binaries
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 3.5,REV=06.21.2002.23.14
BASEDIR: /
VENDOR: VERITAS Software
DESC: Virtual Disk Subsystem
PSTAMP: VERITAS-3.5s_p2.7:20-July-2003
INSTDATE: Mar 10 2004 15:59
HOTLINE: 800-342-0652
EMAIL: support@veritas.com
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 610 installed pathnames
25 shared pathnames
9 linked files
79 directories
342 executables
159726 blocks used (approx)
The rootdisk is encapsulated and mirrored (done under 3.5)
Another disk group is on SAN.
To check the parameters for DMP I ran vxinstall (instead of vxdiskadm). It
bailed out after I answered 'no' for 'Do you want to use Enclosure based names'
with an error message I can't remember any more.
Now Volume Manager is in a strange state:
root[~]:#ps -aef | grep vxcon
root 8003 1 0 15:22:15 ? 0:02 vxconfigd -k -m disable
then I did a kill -9 8003 and tried to restart vxconfigd:
root][~]:#vxconfigd -m boot
vxvm:vxconfigd: ERROR: enable failed: Error in disk group configuration copies
Disk group has no valid configuration copies; transactions are
disabled.
vxvm:vxconfigd: FATAL ERROR: Rootdg cannot be imported during boot
root[~]:#vxdg list
vxvm:vxdg: ERROR: IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible
so I restarted vxconfigd as it used to run before:
root[~]:#vxconfigd -k -m disable
root[~]:#ps -aef vxcon
root 5737 1 1 10:46:30 ? 0:01 vxconfigd -k -m disable
root[~]:#vxdg list
NAME STATE ID
(this stays empty, not showing any of the 2 disk groups)
root[~]:#vxprint
vxvm:vxprint: ERROR: IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible
root[~]:#vxdisk list
vxvm:vxdisk: ERROR: Cannot get records from vxconfigd: Record not in disk group
In 'vea' (The GUI) everything looks fine: Diskgroups, Volumes are all there
and look innocent, no alerts!
I found one proposed solution when googling:
on:
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/pub/mail-lists/veritas-users.May99/msg00048.html
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Dear All,
I took Randy Wong's advice and did the following:
1) removed vx devices from /etc/vfstab
2) touched /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db
3) rebooted.
4) ran vxinstall and re-created the rootdg (added the same disk back in) and
rebooted.
5) put the old /etc/vfstab back, rebooted and all was well.
Thanks,
Graham
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Is this the only solution or can I fix this problem beforehand without
rebooting?
Any ideas are very much appreciated.
Erwin
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