Volume groups problem...
Julie A. Levell
julie at levell.austin.ibm.com
Tue Mar 5 12:31:07 AEST 1991
In article <491 at bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>In an article, ux1.cts.eiu.edu!dbeedle (Dave Beedle) writes:
>>Anyway, I've still got one problem with the volume group. When I boot
>>I get measseges saying : lvaryon: the volume group cannot be varied on
>>because there are no good copies of the descripter area. This message
>>results when I do a varyonvg rootvg. Other messages I get while in smit:
>>getlvodm: Unable to find device if <numbers> in the Device Configuration
>>Database.
>
>Sounds like a reinstallation opportunity to me. Have you been walking
>disks between machines, perchance?
Don't say "The R-word" for a database problem!!
>
>Failing that ...
>
>Switch it to service and run diags (the ``advanced'' set) on the system.
>It could be that you have a problem with the NVRAM or the adapter. If it
>fails diags, (I imagine that it will) give IBM hardware a jingle.
>
And diags won't help you out here either, sorry. It's just a
matter of clearing out the database and re-syncing it.
Switching disks is a different problem, but the database will stay with the
disk, so I'm not sure what the problem was. If the disk isn't rootvg,
then use importvg. I don't think it's a security thing.
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