Quorum not present or some physical volume(s) are missing

[Rebecca Hounschell]

I have a B2000 workstation running HP-UX 11.0. I had two 9gb drives mirrored in a jamaica box(along with other 18gb drives). One of the 9gb drives failed. Since the data and drives were no longer needed, I did the following:
removed logical volumes via SAM
removed volume group via SAM
pulled the drives.
However, when I boot I get the following error(s):
vgchange: Warning: couldn't attach to the vg physical volume "/dev/dsk/c4t5d0";
The path of physical volume refers to a device that does not exist or not configured into the kernel.
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c4t5d0".
(Get the same message for "/dev/dsk/c4t6d0" which was the failed drive.)
Quorum not present or some physical volumes are missing.
vgchanges: couldnt' activate group "/dev/vg03".
I'm not sure what steps I missed when I removed this vg and it's associated disks. Can someone please tell me what I need to do at this point?

[Steven E. Protter]

It is necessary to identify what disks are not responding.

If you have not modified /etc/lvmtab the script I'm attaching will email you a list of disks that are non-responsive.

Please do remember to take MY email address out of the script. I'm sending you production code because I know it works.

Also:

ioscan -fnC disk

Look for NO_HW items there.

dmesg

vi /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

SEP

[Denver Osborn · Accepted solution]

You can remove vg03 from the box using vgexport and get the same results as the failed lvremove/vgremove.

# vxexport -v /dev/vg03

done.

for one reason or antother, when you tried to remove the volume group using sam, something didn't work.

Hope this helps,
-Denver

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Rebecca,

You have to activate the volume sans quorum

vgchange -a y -q n /dev/vg_name

Then

mount -a

to mount the filesystems.

Then it will come up.

HTH,
Jeff

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Do a strings /etc/lvmtab and see if the VG info still exists in the lvmtab. If it exist, do a vgexport for that VG. Looks like when you tried removing the VG through SAM something did not work.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Rebecca Hounschell]

Thanks for everyone's response. I was having issues with the vgexport command but it has successfully removed the vg. I have rebooted the w/s and all is good. Thanks again.