VG's fail to activate on bootup

[John Redington]

This is an L-class attached to an FC-60. On bootup, VG04 and VG05 fail to automount yet vgchange and mount -a will work fine from the command line once the system is up. There is one error in syslog: "FCP: Reset triggered due to missed login event." FCP errors can be generated when an array is not ready and the system tries to mount a volume group on the array. In this case, the FC-60 was not reset. As far as I can tell it was up and ready the whole time. I think the /etc/fstab file should be recreated and we're looking at /sbin/bcheckrc but are open to suggestions.

[James R. Ferguson]

John:

Does /etc/rc.log show any failure messages?

...JRF...

[Ovidiu D. Raita]

The FC cards might be initialized too late in the boot-up sequence (after FC60). Check /etc/init.d/fc_td if you've got the new type of FC cards( the device files can be /dev/td0, td1, ...).

Ovidiu

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

are VG01 to VG03 on same FC60?
If so:

Have you checked /etc/lvmrc file?

[Stephen Doud]

/etc/lvmrc may have the parameter AUTO_VG_ACTIVATE set to zero.
This prevents the normal bootup from activating any VG but those listed further down in the custom_vg_activation() section.

[Mark Mitchell]

Look at you /etc/fstab file, make sure that
your fs you want mounted are listed here.