Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cts.eiu.edu!dbeedle From: dbeedle@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Dave Beedle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Volume groups problem... Message-ID: <1991Feb28.143052.15422@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> Date: 28 Feb 91 14:30:52 GMT Sender: dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Organization: Eastern Illinois University Lines: 31 Hi all! We recently had some trouble with our rs6000/530 and had to reinstall the thing from scratch (the original floppies...all 78 of 'em). I also restored some stuff from other backup tapes including the /usr subdirectory, the /etc subdirectory and the /u subdirectory; to catch up with where we were before our problems. Anyway, I've still got one problem with the volume group. When I boot I get measseges saying : lvaryon: the volume group cannot be varied on because there are no good copies if the descripter area. This message results when I do a varyonvg rootvg. Other messages I get while in smit: getlvodm: Unable to find device if in the Device Configuration Database. Have you, by chance, seen something like this? The last thing "Software Support" had to say to me was to pull the battry off the NVram for at least 45 min. and let it rebuld itself. Any thoughts? Just what is going to happen if I unplug that battery? Is there any other way to fix this? This problem doesn't seem to interfere with the functioning of the machine but I don't get any info on the volume group (lsvg rootvg - tells me to varyon the VG and shows ????? everywhere else.) I talked to "Software Support about my problem...It seems that software support is really "Software Defects Support". Once they decided my problems were not "defects" they told me to call my local SE and/or CE. Unfortunatly my SE is really a marketing rep and is little help when it comes to problems. Thanks for any suggestions! TTFN -- Dave Beedle Office of Academic Computing Illinois State University Internet: dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu 136A Julian Hall Bitnet: dbeedle@ilstu Normal, Il 61761