Duplicate device name in vxdisk list output
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Description
Error Message
# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
EMC1_0 auto - - error
EMC1_0 auto - - error
EMC1_0 auto - - error
EMC1_1 auto - - error
EMC1_1 auto - - error
EMC1_1 auto - - error
EMC1_2 auto - - error
EMC1_2 auto - - error
EMC1_2 auto - - error
EMC1_3 auto - - error
EMC1_3 auto - - error
EMC1_3 auto - - error
c1t0d0s2 auto:sliced rootdisk rootdg online
c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced rootmirror rootdg online
c3t8d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c3t9d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c3t10d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
emcpower0s2 auto:sliced datar01 data_dg online
emcpower1s2 auto:sliced data02 data_dg online
emcpower3s2 auto:sliced data03 data_dg online
emcpower4s2 auto:sliced data04 data_dg online
emcpower5s2 auto - - error
Cause
Stale devices in the volume manager device tree.
Resolution
Cleaned the device tree in VM and OS and reconfigure reboot.
# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
EMC1_0 auto - - error
EMC1_0 auto - - error
EMC1_0 auto - - error
EMC1_1 auto - - error
EMC1_1 auto - - error
EMC1_1 auto - - error
EMC1_2 auto - - error
EMC1_2 auto - - error
EMC1_2 auto - - error
EMC1_3 auto - - error
EMC1_3 auto - - error
EMC1_3 auto - - error
c1t0d0s2 auto:sliced rootdisk rootdg online
c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced rootmirror rootdg online
c3t8d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c3t9d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c3t10d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
emcpower0s2 auto:sliced data01 data_dg online
emcpower1s2 auto:sliced data02 data_dg online
emcpower3s2 auto:sliced data03 data_dg online
emcpower4s2 auto:sliced data04 data_dg online
emcpower5s2 auto - - error
We cleaned the device tree with the following steps;
# cd /dev/vx/dmp
# rm -rf *
# cd /dev/vx/rdmp
# rm -rf *
# cd /etc/vx
# rm -rf *.info
# devfsadm -C
# vxconfigd -k -x syslog
We still had the duplicate devices in vxdisk list.
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
EMC1_0 auto - - error
EMC1_0 auto - - error
EMC1_0 auto - - error
EMC1_1 auto - - error
EMC1_1 auto - - error
EMC1_1 auto - - error
EMC1_2 auto - - error
EMC1_2 auto - - error
EMC1_2 auto - - error
EMC1_3 auto - - error
EMC1_3 auto - - error
EMC1_3 auto - - error
c1t0d0s2 auto:sliced rootdisk rootdg online
c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced rootmirror rootdg online
c3t8d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c3t9d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c3t10d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
emcpower0s2 auto:sliced data01 data_dg online
emcpower1s2 auto:sliced data02 data_dg online
emcpower3s2 auto:sliced data03 data_dg online
emcpower4s2 auto:sliced data04 data_dg online
emcpower5s2 auto - - error
We cleaned the OS device tree with these commands and the commands mentioned above for Volume Manager;
# cd /dev/dsk
# rm -rf *
# cd /dev/rdsk
Still had the duplicate device entry's. At this point they are in memory and a system reboot (reboot -- -r) is necessary.
After that the duplicates were gone.
# vxdisk list
c1t0d0s2 auto:sliced rootdisk rootdg online
c1t1d0s2 auto:sliced rootmirror rootdg online
c3t8d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c3t9d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c3t10d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
emcpower0s2 auto:sliced data01 data_dg online
emcpower1s2 auto:sliced data02 data_dg online
emcpower3s2 auto:sliced data03 data_dg online
emcpower4s2 auto:sliced data04 data_dg online
Applies To
Solaris 10
4.1MP2
Issue/Introduction
Stale devices in vxdisk list output
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