Volume group does not get activated upon reboot

[dictum9]

The OS is 11.23, on zx6000 Ita box.

I added this volume group that has disks from external Hitachi storage.

Every time the machine reboots, the VG is not activated and none of the lvols get mounted of course.

I can do vgchange -a y on the VG manually and then do mount -a so that all lvols mount.

I did not see anything abnormal in any log files, of course I don't think they would log anything anyway as VG activation happens a lot earlier than log files getting written to.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Do you have a /etc/lvmrc file?


Pete

[TTr]

Check for any errors in /etc/rc.log

I am guessing that the disks for this volume group are not visible by the server early in the boot process. Some process attaches them later on and by then it is too late.

Also do you have a serviceguard package set up in this server?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Do you have AUTO_VG_ACTIVATE=1 in '/sbin/lvmrc' or do you have this set to zero (0) where you must delare the volume groups you want activiated in '/etc/lvmrc' in its 'custom_vg_activation()' function?

Regards!

...JRF...