No response from fsck for over 2 hours??

[Janet White]

rp3440; XP10K disks (OPEN-V) 2 25GB LUNS make up volume group with single lvol. AT DR site vgstatus was going back and forth with available/unavailable syslog dmesg had errors (PV Failed/PV recovered) No problems on XP, SAN switch etc. dd of physical disks records in matched records out no i/o errors. Since the data gets to the disks via CA, split the pair did a vgexport of vg02 and an import using the disk addresses (not map file). went to mount /var/opt/ignite (file system on vg02) fs is corrupted needs checking. fsck -F vxfs -o full,nolog /dev/vg02/rlvol1 has been running for over 2 hours without any response; pid is still active and no . I'm thinking it isn't really doing anything... is there some way to tell? Has anyone had a long running fsck before? Thank you for your time.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Janet,
I once had similar issues:
Once it was th JBIC, then the HBA, and last time it was the fibre itself, this one was tricky it just happend that the end was 2 tenth of a mm too long.. and so would not clip properly...
And at each intervention or if someone moved some cables I would find myself with such messages...

Check again your cabling, after give a go of
fcmsutil to see what you can say about your HBAs


All the best
Victor

[Janet White]

All was working before, can't check cabling as DR is out of state (will open a ticket with HP I guess) hba's look good (see attached)Thanks for the good wishes, btw after export import not receiving messages in syslog or dmesg regarding the disks anymore.. just can't get fsck to run or finish.

[Victor BERRIDGE · Accepted solution]

Hi Janet,

There is another command you could give a try:
/opt/fcms/bin/tddiag
Do a tddiag -? to see the options

Hope this helps

All the best
Victor

[Victor BERRIDGE]

I forgot to add:
With fcmsutil you can also test your HBAs and pick up stats...
Don a man of fcmsutil...

All the best
Victor

[Janet White]

Thanks for the help Victor...ended up being a loose cable, I appreciate the additional command info.

[Janet White]

loose cable