make_tape_recovery -A fail on Ignite C.7.3.144 with MCSG vgs not active

[karson.song]

Hi,
I have met serveral cases about "make_tape_recovery -A fail on Ignite C.7.3.144 with MCSG vgs not active,include the lock vg of MCSG".
Get the error:
lvlnboot: Volume group not activated.
Cannot display volume group "/dev/vglock".
save_config: Error - lvlnboot command returns above complaints.
ERROR: /opt/ignite/bin/save_config failed

======= 11/02/07 18:03:38 EAT make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully

Does it this Ignite version problem?
Since I have not saw C.7.3.144 on the Ignite-UX download web page ever.

[Prashanth.D.S]

Hi,

The vglock LVM volume group contains logical volumes, and is in fact inactive. Previously Ignite-UX used to just print a warning about inactive volume groups.

For C.7.3.X, the save_config script was modified to prevent cases where the lvnlboot command encountered an error, but still returned a return code of 0. Unfortunately, these modifications resulted in the undesirable behavior you're seeing now. I guess the fix should be available in version C.7.3.146. Can you pls check the release notes for this version..

Best Regards,
Prashanth

[wittie]

Hi,

I know it will sound unreasonable, but I would suggest downgrading to an earlier version of Ignite < C.7.3.144, since this version has known limitations in SG environment with inactive VGs and I'm not sure if it has been corrected already in the newest C.7.3.148, but I would rather say No.

[wittie · Accepted solution]

Oh yeah, I got an answer for you. I was wrong in my last post. It seems they have already fixed the issue in C.7.3.148.

Here an excerpt from the Release Notes:

######--cut--######
- Fixes for the following Change Requests:

* JAGag46613 fix. save_config, make_net_recovery, and make_tape_recovery would fail on systems that have inactive volume groups (which is typical on ServiceGuard clusters). This issue was introduced with the C.7.3.144 Ignite-UX release.
######--paste--######

Go on upgrade to C.7.3.148, forget about downgrading :)

[karson.song]

thanks for wittie's answer.