vg00 fails to activate after reboot

[Dhananjay Dhane]

Hi,

I have system with HP-UX 11.23. I recently shutdown system and now when I power it up, it gives error message "unable to mount /stand" and system goes to single user mode.

if I enter vgdisplay command, following is the error I received.

vgdisplay: volume group not activated.

vgdisplay: Cannot display volume group "vg00"

we are able to mount all filesystem only after running vgchange -a y vg00. but after reboot, we again lands up in same situation.

How I can ensure that vg00 gets activated everytime after reboot. It's a standalone workstation system and I am not using serviceguard

I found many post which are related with serviceguard environment.

KIndly help me to resolve this issue.

Dhananjay Dhane

[Patrick Wallek]

Check your /etc/lvmconf file and make sure that the AUGO_VG_ACTIVATE variable is set to 1 so that the VGs will activate automatically.

[Dhananjay Dhane · Accepted solution]

Thanks patrick for reply.

There was no problem with AUTO_VG_ACTIVATE variable. There was no problem as such, we were ignoring bootconfig which was causing system to boot into maintenance mode.

Thanks,

Dhananjay Dhane