SUMMARY: Rootdg destroyed (Veritas Volume Manager)

From: Sam Don (don_sam@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 10 1999 - 16:56:05 CST


I'm sorry I forgot to add "SUMMARY" in title.
SD
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Hi,

My problem:

>Here's what I have: Solaris 2.6, Volume Manager 3.0.1.
>
>Here's what I did: An internal disk in E450 is used to create rootdg
>(this is unused). Another diskgroup is on the RAID.I thought that the
>rootdg disk wasn't in use and repartitioned it, thereby destroying >
>rootdg. The other diskgroup still looks fine.
>
>I tried adding the disk back to rootdg:
>
># vxdiskadm
>
>vxdctl: Configuration daemon is not accessible
>
> Unexpected internal error -- Cannot get the system's hostid.
>
># vxdisk list
>vxvm:vxdisk: ERROR: Cannot get records from vxconfigd: Record not in
>diskgroup
>
># vxconfigd -f
>Error in disk group configuration copies
>No valid disk found containing disk group; transactions are disabled.
>
>How can I recreate rootdg?

Thanks to "Nason, Roger" and "Luke A. Kanies" for their help.

Roger's suggestion:

I recently had a very similar problem. I was able to recover from by
creating a new rootdg, using the vxdg command, and then using vxdiskadm to
add the disk to the new rootdg.

All I had to do was; vxdg -n rootdg (This created a rootdg disk
group) Then I ran, vxdiskadm, and added(and initialized) the disk
to rootdg. After this I stopped and restarted vxconfigd. From there
I was able to launch vxva and create volumes in rootdg, and it
automatically picked up the raid volume group. Hope this helps.

Luke's suggestion:

You should be able to just reinitialize the disk into rootdg, like
you were first installing the first disk. Then, once it is in rootdg, you
just import all of your other disk groups.

Regards,
SD

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