vgdisplay: Volume group not activated .

[UVK]

vgchange talking 1 hr is not usual, it indicates problem.

Running fsck should not be a problem unless it asks u for correction and we say 'y'

Though I am not sure about this..

---------- LOGICAL DRIVE 0 ----------

Device File = c5t0d0
RAID Level = 5
Size = 1120078 MB
Stripe Size = 16 KB
Status = FAILED

Does this mean we have a bad disk ???

Torsten any comment ?

[UVK]

Asking for info sake...how many times did server go down with high temp issue before you run into this problem ?

I had some bad experience when one of my servers started going down due to high temp ...it our facilites guy mistake that the rack alignment was not good and one rack server fans were blowing into other rack ..the server rebooted about 30 to 40 times and later dead as disks go corrupted.

I hope this will not happen with you.

-uvk

[sysad_boy]

Just arrive din the office, My bad for giving the wrong information.

The server is connected to an external storage (disk array) in which i am experiencing problems with.

Today I tried doing:

1. Shutting down the server
2. turning off the disk array
3. turning on the disk array
4. after 10 mins I powered ON the server

But after performing these steps vg01 is still deactivated.

[Torsten.]

Maybe the data is now inconsistent, this means data loss.

You can try

# sautil /dev/ciss5 start_recovery

but likely this will not help.

Consider to delete the array, recreate and restore data from backup.

Make sure to replace the bad batteries!