VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Release Notes (August 2002)

Chapter 1

VERITAS Volume Manager™ Release Notes

Patches and Fixes in This Version

Getting Product Information Updates

There may be additional product information about this release which is available on the VERITAS Technical

Support website. To check for any new or updated information, do the following:

Step 1. Go to the VERITAS Technical Support website at http://support.veritas.com.

Step 2. Click on the Knowledge Base Search section.

Step 3. Select Volume Manager for UNIX from the Search Product pull-down menu and enter the search

phrase “late breaking information”.

This will show you any information that has been amended or added to the VxVM 3.5 product documentation.

Known Problems and Workarounds

The following known problems and workarounds have been identiﬁed:

• “Installation Issues” on page 21

• “vxassist Issues” on page 23

• “VEA Issues” on page 24

• “VxVM DMP Issues” on page 26

• “Miscellaneous Issues” on page 27

Installation Issues

Removal of HPvxvm Product after Installing VxVM 3.5 Products Causes License Files to be

Removed

• Problem: The HPvxvm postremove script removes directories in /etc/vx, apart those named /etc/vx/elm,

/etc/vx/type or /etc/vx/emc.d. Thus VxVM 3.5 products installed on the system lose their licensing ﬁles

since they get installed in /etc/vx/licenses. Also, ﬁles created with the VRTSvlic product also get removed.

• Workaround: Reinstall the VRTSvlic product if it had been installed. Remember to use the "-x

reinstall=true" ﬂag for the swinstall. For product speciﬁc licenses, simply reapply the licenses using the

vxlicinst(1) command.

(See also Technote at http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/244257.htm.)

Machine Apparently Hangs After Installing AR1201 If you have a machine that has AR0902 installed

with VxVM root, and then you attempt to install 11i AR1201 to a different disk; then rebooting the machine

after the AR1201 installation will initiate a question that will wait for user input.

PHCO_27209 Patch for VxVM rootability changes to the insf command Mandatory (needed for

VxVM 3.5 installation)

PHCO_27099 Patch for VxVM rootability changes to LVM commands Optional

PHCO_27103 Patch for VxVM rootability changes to /sbin/pre_init_rc Mandatory

PHCO_26736 ioinitrc(iM) patch Mandatory

Patch

Number

Description Mandatory/Optional