can't import a vg (0516-02) (0516-780)

I am rebuilding a node that used to be part of an HACMP cluster. There are
two resource groups, set up as mutual takeover. Each resource group resides
on a different node, and each resource group includes one volume group.

I am getting ready to install HACMP on the new node, but before I do, I
wanted to make sure the node can still see each volume group. The orginal
volume group on this node, vgroupa, is fine, I can see it, vary it on and
mount any filesystems. The other volume group vgroupb, I can see the pvs,
but nothing more. I cannot import it.

The existing node in this cluster, can see both volume groups and can mount
all the filesystems.

This is what I’m looking at on the new node:

# lspv
hdisk0 0025304af8bbb5eb rootvg active
hdisk1 0025304a1252c19c None
hdisk2 00cd2b3c0da228c8 vgroupa
hdisk3 00cd2b3c0da22a5f vgroupa
hdisk4 00cd2b3c0da22bd9 vgroupa
hdisk5 00cd2b3c0da22d53 vgroupa
hdisk6 00cd2b3c0da22ee9 vgroupa
hdisk7 00cd2b3c0da23064 vgroupa
hdisk8 00cd2b3c0da231de vgroupa
hdisk9 00cd2b3c0da2337b vgroupa
hdisk10 00cd2b3c0da234f5 vgroupa
hdisk11 00cd2b3c0da2369d vgroupa
hdisk12 00cd2b3c0da2383d vgroupa
hdisk13 00cd2b3c0da239c2 vgroupa
hdisk14 none None
hdisk15 none None
hdisk16 none None
hdisk17 none None
hdisk18 none None
hdisk19 none None
hdisk20 none None
hdisk21 none None
hdisk22 none None
hdisk23 none None
hdisk24 none None
hdisk25 none None


Hdisk14 to hdisk25 contain vgroupb but I cannot import it:

# importvg -y vgroupb hdisk20
0516-022 : Illegal parameter or structure value.
0516-780 importvg: Unable to import volume group from hdisk20.
uxsyblab1:/

I get the above error with any disk that I use, from hdisk14 to hdisk25.
The other node can vary both vgs on and off without any problem.

What am I missing?

On both nodes when I run lqueryvg on the hdisks, I get the same information
for each disk. Here is an example:

# lquerypv -h /dev/hdisk20
00000000 C9C2D4C1 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
00000010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
00000020 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
00000030 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
00000050 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
00000060 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
00000070 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
00000080 00CD2B3C 10972EAB 00000000 00000000 |..+<............|
00000090 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
000000A0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
000000B0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
000000C0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
000000D0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
000000E0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|
000000F0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................|



# lqueryvg -p hdisk20 -At
0516-304 lqueryvg: Unable to find device id hdisk20 in the Device
Configuration Database.
Max LVs: 256
PP Size: 27
Free PPs: 1035
LV count: 68
PV count: 12
Total VGDAs: 12
Conc Allowed: 0
MAX PPs per PV 1016
MAX PVs: 32
Conc Autovaryo 0
Varied on Conc 0
Logical: 00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.1 sybaselabwslv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.2 lv01 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.3 exportslabwslv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.4 syblabmstrwslv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.5 syblabsysprcws 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.6 vgroupa01lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.7 vgroupa02lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.8 vgroupa03lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.9 vgroupa04lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.10 vgroupa05lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.11 vgroupa06lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.12 vgroupa07lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.13 vgroupa08lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.14 vgroupa09lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.15 vgroupa10lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.16 vgroupa11lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.17 vgroupa12lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.18 vgroupa13lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.19 vgroupa14lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.20 vgroupa15lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.21 vgroupa16lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.22 vgroupa17lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.23 vgroupa18lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.24 vgroupa19lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.25 vgroupa20lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.26 vgroupa21lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.27 vgroupa22lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.28 vgroupa23lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.29 vgroupa24lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.30 vgroupa25lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.31 vgroupa26lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.32 vgroupa27lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.33 vgroupa28lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.34 vgroupa29lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.35 vgroupa30lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.36 vgroupa31lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.37 vgroupa32lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.38 vgroupa33lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.39 vgroupa34lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.40 vgroupa35lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.41 vgroupa36lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.42 vgroupa37lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.43 vgroupa38lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.44 vgroupa39lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.45 vgroupa40lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.46 vgroupa41lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.47 vgroupa42lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.48 vgroupa43lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.49 vgroupa44lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.50 vgroupa45lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.51 vgroupa46lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.52 vgroupa47lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.53 vgroupa48lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.54 vgroupa49lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.55 vgroupa50lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.56 vgroupa51lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.57 vgroupa52lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.58 vgroupa53lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.59 vgroupa54lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.60 vgroupa55lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.61 vgroupa56lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.62 vgroupa57lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.63 vgroupa58lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.64 vgroupa59lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.65 vgroupa60lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.66 vgroupa61lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.67 vgroupa62lv 1
00cd2b3c00004c00000001051099ba59.68 vgroupa63lv 1
Physical: 00cd2b3c10972591 1 0
00cd2b3c10972727 1 0
00cd2b3c1097289a 1 0
00cd2b3c10972a0e 1 0
00cd2b3c10972b88 1 0
00cd2b3c10972d34 1 0
00cd2b3c10972eab 1 0
00cd2b3c10973025 1 0
00cd2b3c109731a2 1 0
00cd2b3c10973319 1 0
00cd2b3c1097349f 1 0
00cd2b3c1097361e 1 0
Total PPs: 9588
LTG size: 128
HOT SPARE: 0
AUTO SYNC: 0
VG PERMISSION: 0
SNAPSHOT VG: 0
IS_PRIMARY VG: 0
PSNFSTPP: 4352
VARYON MODE: 0
VG Type: 0
Max PPs: 32512

There is also another difference on the two machines that I’ve noticed.
When I do an odmget on both machines, there is one extra stanza on the good
machine. This is the stanza:

CuAt:
name = "hdisk20"
attribute = "pvid"
value = "00cd2b3c10972eab0000000000000000"
type = "R"
generic = "D"
rep = "s"
nls_index = 6

I’m stumped on how to import this volume group. Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks,