Veritas InfoScale™ 7.3.1 Troubleshooting Guide - Solaris

To recover the Veritas Volume Manager configuration

1. Enter the following: .

   # touch /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db

2. Shut down the system.
3. Reattach the disks that were removed from the system.
4. Reboot the system.
5. When the system comes up, bring the system to single-user mode using the following command:

   # exec init S

6. When prompted, enter the password and press Return to continue.
7. Remove files involved with installation that were created when you loaded VxVM, but which are no longer needed, using the following command:

   # rm -rf /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db

8. Start some Veritas Volume Manager I/O daemons using the following command:

   # vxiod set 10

9. Start the Veritas Volume Manager configuration daemon, vxconfigd, in disabled mode using the following command:

   # vxconfigd -m disable

10. Initialize the vxconfigd daemon using the following command:

    # vxdctl init

11. Initialize the DMP subsystem using the following command:

    # vxdctl initdmp

12. Enable vxconfigd using the following command:

    # vxdctl enable

    The configuration preserved on the disks not involved with the reinstallation has now been recovered. However, because the root disk has been reinstalled, it does not appear to VxVM as a VM disk. The configuration of the preserved disks does not include the root disk as part of the VxVM configuration.

    If the root disk of your system and any other disks involved in the reinstallation were not under VxVM control at the time of failure and reinstallation, then the reconfiguration is complete at this point.

    If the root disk (or another disk) was involved with the reinstallation, any volumes or mirrors on that disk (or other disks no longer attached to the system) are now inaccessible. If a volume had only one plex contained on a disk that was reinstalled, removed, or replaced, then the data in that volume is lost and must be restored from backup.