package failed to activate

[Ionut Grigorescu_2]

Hi all,

I have a problem trying to activate a MC/SG package on one of our cluster (2 K-class Servers running HPUX11.00 ) ioscan -funC disk shows both harddisk that are supposed to belong to this vg:
c0t5d0 and c1t5d0 - from lvmtab. See the error in the attached log file from /etc/cmcluster/pkggprsbb/
Any help will be apreciated.

Thanks in advance,
ionut

[Darren Prior]

Hi Ionut,

You've got cross device links... Can you check the minor numbers of the various /dev/vgxx/group files to make sure you don't have duplicates.

regards,

Darren.

[Rainer von Bongartz · Accepted solution]

This will help you:

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000066417356


Regards
Rainer

[melvyn burnard]

Well you have a very basic LVM error, as follows:
2003-04-08 11:44:49 : Changing volume group /dev/vggprsbb to clustering mode...
vgchange: Warning: Couldn't attach to the volume group physical volume "/dev/ds:
Cross-device link
vgchange: Could not attach to volume group "/dev/vggprsbb" all of
its physical volumes.
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c0t5d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
2003-04-08 11:44:50 : WARNING: vgchange failed, continuing.
2003-04-08 11:44:50 : Activating volume group /dev/vggprsbb...
vgchange: Warning: Couldn't attach to the volume group physical volume "/dev/ds:
Cross-device link
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c0t5d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
vgchange: Couldn't activate volume group "/dev/vggprsbb":
Quorum not present, or some physical volume(s) are missing.

2003-04-08 11:44:50 : ERROR: vgchange failed, exiting...
2003-04-08 11:44:50 : ERROR: Function activate_volume_groups
2003-04-08 11:44:50 : Deactivating volume group /dev/vggprsbb...


So you need to fix these cross-device links and verfy all works using hte manual commands before trying to get SG to start the package.

[Michael Steele_2]

Cross linked means two vg's are claiming ownership of the same disk or there are duplicate group minor numbers. 'strings /etc/lvmtab' and 'll -d /dev/vg*/group'.

Also, does this appear on one node or both?

Check the package:

cmcheckconf -k -v -P /etc/cmcluster/package.conf

[Ionut Grigorescu_2]

Danke fuer das Dokument, Rainer!
Thank you all for the answers. I think I have made a mistake - I have vgexported vggprssbb volume group to /tmp/vggprsbb.map, then mkdir, mknod (the same minor number as before), but when vgimported I wasn't able to pass both harddisk (it was mirrored before), only one of them and at vgchange -a y the system complained about low quorum - is there a way to repair that? I have perform it only on one server, the other one still have the original configuration.

Regards,
ionut

[Ionut Grigorescu_2]

strings /etc/lvmconf/vggprsbb.conf produces:
on server 2:

CONFIG01
/dev/vggprsbb
/dev/rdsk/c0t5d0
/dev/rdsk/c1t5d0
LVMREC01n
LVMREC01n
@BVGDA0001
VGSA0001:

on server 1: (here I have made the vgexport/vgimport)
CONFIG01
/dev/vggprsbb
/dev/rdsk/c1t5d0
/dev/rdsk/c0t5d0
LVMREC01n
LVMREC01n
E=:VGDA0001
VGSA0001: