vgdisplay: Volume group not activated .

[Avinash20]

Post output of

# strings /etc/lvmtab
# diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0
# kmtune | grep maxvgs
# ioscan -fnC disk
# vgcfgrestore -n /dev/vg01 -l
# vgcfgrestore -f /tmp/vg01.backup -l

### The above command are only to provide me the output of the PV and the VG

[UVK]

Try doing fsck on your lvols
Does this vg use any external disks ?

PV's used by VG should be available. Did u check of you have those PVs available ?

[UVK]

BTW.. you can list the pv's in the vg by using
#strings /etc/lvmtab

[Torsten.]

Try

# vgchange -q n -a y vg01

One of the disks is probably bad - are the LVOLs mirrored?

[Avinash20]

# vgchange -q n -a y vg01

will work out if there is >=50% disk available.

[Bijeesh]

hi
is the disk "/dev/dsk/c5t0d0" belongs to vg01?
what is the o/p of
#strings /etc/lvmtab

[sysad_boy]

[root@]:/>strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0
/dev/vg01
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0

[root@]:/>diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0
SCSI describe of /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0:
vendor: HP
product id: LOGICAL VOLUME
type: direct access
size: 1146960776 Kbytes
bytes per sector: 512

[root@]:/>kmtune | grep maxvgs
maxvgs 256 - 256



[root@]:/>ioscan -fnC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
==========================================================================
disk 0 0/0/3/0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC DV-28E-C
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
disk 1 0/1/1/0/4/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP LOGICAL VOLUME
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0
disk 2 0/6/1/0/4/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP LOGICAL VOLUME
/dev/dsk/c5t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0


[root@]:/>vgcfgrestore -n /dev/vg01 -l
Volume Group Configuration information in "/etc/lvmconf/vg01.conf"
VG Name /dev/vg01
---- Physical volumes : 1 ----
/dev/rdsk/c5t0d0 (Non-bootable)

[root@]:/> vgcfgrestore -f /tmp/vg01.backup -l
vgcfgrestore: Error opening LVM configuration file : /tmp/vg01.backup

[root@]:/>ls -l /tmp/vg01.backup
/tmp/vg01.backup not found

[Torsten.]

diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0
SCSI describe of /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0:
vendor: HP
product id: LOGICAL VOLUME



This must be a hardware RAID.

Do you see any "ciss" devices in ioscan?

Please get more information:

# sautil /dev/ciss_

# saconfig /dev/ciss_

[sysad_boy]

FYI it took me almost an hour to finish executing vgchange earlier before I posted in here. is that normal?

[sysad_boy]

[root@]:/>sautil /dev/ciss_

******************************************************************************
**** ****
**** S A U T I L S u p p o r t U t i l i t y ****
**** ****
**** for the HP SmartArray RAID Controller Family ****
**** ****
**** version A.02.09 ****
**** ****
**** (C) Copyright 2003-2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. ****
******************************************************************************


sautil: Unrecognized device file specified: "/dev/ciss_"

sautil: Error - File open failed
sautil: No such file or directory, errno=2


RAID SA device files (/dev/cissX) found using "/usr/sbin/ioscan -kfnd ciss":

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
========================================================================
ext_bus 2 0/1/1/0/4/0 ciss CLAIMED INTERFACE PCI-X SmartArray 640 2 RAID Controller
/dev/ciss2
ext_bus 5 0/6/1/0/4/0 ciss CLAIMED INTERFACE PCI-X SmartArray 640 2 RAID Controller
/dev/ciss5

Run "sautil run_startup_script" if you suspect that the device file is missing or corrupted.
Run "sautil" to view usage screen.



[root]:/>saconfig /dev/ciss_


saconfig (/dev/ciss_): Error - File open failed
saconfig (/dev/ciss_): No such file or directory, errno=2


SmartArray RAID device files (/dev/cissX) found using "/usr/sbin/ioscan -kfnd ciss":

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
========================================================================
ext_bus 2 0/1/1/0/4/0 ciss CLAIMED INTERFACE PCI-X SmartArray 6402 RAID Controller
/dev/ciss2
ext_bus 5 0/6/1/0/4/0 ciss CLAIMED INTERFACE PCI-X SmartArray 6402 RAID Controller
/dev/ciss5

Run "sautil run_startup_script" if you suspect that the device file is missing or corrupted.