Archive for February, 2010

UX-Ignite gives “The currently selected configuration does not contain any environments. You may want to select another configuration.”

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

I recently tried to reignite a server from another servers ignite recovery archive. At first I did not success. It threw this error in my face

The currently selected configuration does not contain any environments. You may want to select another configuration.

Debugging the error I found that the client did not have an config file in

/var/opt/ignite/clients/<name>/config

And thus lanbooting Ignite-UX threw the error above. I basically just copied over a config file from another server and edited it and all was fine again.

Unstartable volume in vxvm

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I recently had an case, where I got

ERROR V-5-1-1198 Volume misc2prd_redo2vol has no CLEAN or non-volatile ACTIVE plexes

The plex associated with the volume was in RECOVER state. This can happend “if the plex content is out of-date with respect to the volume. This can happen if a disk containing one or more of the plex’s subdisks has been replaced or reattached”.  In my case it was caused by a failing disk, that was brought online again later.  To recover I did:

# Force the plex into offline state
sudo vxmend -g misc2prd_dg2 -o force off misc2prd_redo2vol-01
# Put the plex into stale state
sudo vxmend -g misc2prd_dg2 on misc2prd_redo2vol-01
# Put the plex into clean state
sudo vxmend -g misc2prd_dg2 fix clean misc2prd_redo2vol-01

# Start the volume
sudo vxvol -g misc2prd_dg2 startall