topic Re: LV Status available/stale in Operating System - HP-UX

LV Status available/stale

George_206 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:49:00 GMT

I receive the following when I run vgdisplay

cbog_pw:/# vgdisplay -v /dev/vg00
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vg00
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 255
Cur LV 10
Open LV 10
Max PV 16
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
Max PE per PV 4350
VGDA 4
PE Size (Mbytes) 4
Total PE 8680
Alloc PE 5088
Free PE 3592
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0

--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol1
LV Status available/stale
LV Size (Mbytes) 100
Current LE 25
Allocated PE 50
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol2
LV Status available/stale
LV Size (Mbytes) 500
Current LE 125
Allocated PE 250
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol3
LV Status available/stale
LV Size (Mbytes) 100
Current LE 25
Allocated PE 50
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol4
LV Status available/stale
LV Size (Mbytes) 1024
Current LE 256
Allocated PE 512
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol5
LV Status available/stale
LV Size (Mbytes) 300
Current LE 75
Allocated PE 150
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol6
LV Status available/stale
LV Size (Mbytes) 2048
Current LE 512
Allocated PE 1024
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol7
LV Status available/stale
LV Size (Mbytes) 2048
Current LE 512
Allocated PE 1024
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvol8
LV Status available/stale
LV Size (Mbytes) 20
Current LE 5
Allocated PE 10
Used PV 2

LV Name /dev/vg00/oracle
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 5000
Current LE 1250
Allocated PE 1250
Used PV 1

LV Name /dev/vg00/lvswap
LV Status available/stale
LV Size (Mbytes) 1536
Current LE 384
Allocated PE 768
Used PV 2

--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c2t2d0
PV Status available
Total PE 4340
Free PE 1171
Autoswitch On

PV Name /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
PV Status unavailable
Total PE 4340
Free PE 2421
Autoswitch On

ioscan returns the following

cbog_pw:/#ioscan -fnC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=====================================================================
disk 0 0/0/1/1.2.0 sdisk NO_HW DEVICE SEAGATE ST318404LC
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0
disk 1 0/0/2/0.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST318404LC
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0
disk 2 0/0/2/1.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DVD-ROM 304
/dev/cdrom /dev/dsk/c3t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t2d0
disk 3 0/4/0/0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP C5447A
/dev/dsk/c4t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c4t1d0
disk 5 0/4/0/0.1.1 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP C5447A
/dev/dsk/c4t1d1 /dev/rdsk/c4t1d1
disk 4 0/7/0/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP C5447A
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0
disk 6 0/7/0/0.0.1 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP C5447A
/dev/dsk/c5t0d1 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d1

any help ?

George.

Re: LV Status available/stale

Ivan Krastev — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:57:51 GMT

Disk at patch 0/0/1/1.2.0 (c1t2d0) is possibly bad.
See this doc for apropriate actions - http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5991-1236/When_Good_Disks_Go_Bad.pdf

regards,
ivan

Re: LV Status available/stale

Sunny Jaisinghani — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:11:47 GMT

hi

may be the disk driver got removed. try running insf -e command and see if the status of the disk /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 changes to CLAIMED.

sunny

Re: LV Status available/stale

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:16:08 GMT

Well, the fact that the disk /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 shows a pvstatus of unavailable in the vgdisplay, and shows NO_HW in ioscan are pretty good clues that the disk has died.

If you have a support contract, call HP and get them on site to replace the disk.

If you don't have support, you will need to find an 18GB disk appropriate for your machine (which appears to be an L-series or rp54xx) and replace it yourself.

The "When good disks go bad" referenced above gives pretty good instructions on replacing the disks.

Re: LV Status available/stale

James George_1 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:03:45 GMT

Hi
Your disk is gone bad. Call HP to replace the disk . If this is your root disk, use the procedure in "when good disk go bad" to replace it ..

Good luck .

James

Re: LV Status available/stale

Berd — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:40:05 GMT

George,

Your disk has failed;

disk 0 0/0/1/1.2.0 sdisk NO_HW DEVICE SEAGATE ST318404LC

You will need to get the disk replaced and then re-mirror.

Regards,
Berd

Re: LV Status available/stale

Prashanth.D.S — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:01:08 GMT

Hi George,

Above logs confirms that the disk is faulty and to be replaced immediately..

disk 0 0/0/1/1.2.0 sdisk NO_HW DEVICE SEAGATE ST318404LC
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0 == Shows no_hw

PV Name /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
PV Status unavailable ===> unavailable.
Total PE 4340
Free PE 2421
Autoswitch On

Hence you are seeing stale messages in vgdisplay. Would recommend you to get the disk replaced ASAP if its a RP54XX series then its an internal disk and the below given is the part number.

18GB HotPlug Disk A5803-69003 ST318404LC

Best Regards,
Prashanth

Re: LV Status available/stale

Sandman! — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:15:28 GMT

Check the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file for SCSI-lbolt related errors and paste them here. This would doubly confirm if one of your vg00 disks has gone bad.

~cheers

Re: LV Status available/stale

George_206 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:28:20 GMT

We called HP support and replaced the disk. It had failed indeed.
Thank everyone.

George.

Re: LV Status available/stale

George_206 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:30:01 GMT

Disk replacement.