'Unexpected error occured.' error message (under Solaris)

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Hello, I've just move a solaris boot disk to another analog system connected to the same disks trough the SAN (it's like a handmade cluster). I've ran a devfsadm -r on the boot disk before to move the system disk. But PowerPath is out-of-order by now. I would like at least he reinitialized its configuration to be now able to run but it says me : # powermt config Unexpected error occured. # powercf -q Unexpected error occurred. I've trie to rename /kernel/emcp.conf to another name, also to make devfsadm -C, to rename powercf.custom. Nothing works. Always the same problem. Any idea ? Regards

mack-xwWos · Answer

Dakota, I have had and seen similar issues with Power Path when moving devices etc around. It seems that Power Path gets upset and refuses to function properly. I'm not sure if some part of the config gets hung up or what it is. I have found that sometimes removing the Power Path package then re-installing it again clears up the issue. Not much help I know, but it has in the past worked for us. Good luck, mack

Dakota2 · Answer

Do you have any special way to remove powerpath ? The pkgrm refuses to remove PowerPath. It seems to struggle to contact Vxconfd that is disabled. Anyway, do you have any 100% sure way to remove powerpath 4.3.1 by hand ?

mack-xwWos · Answer

Dakota, I am not a Unix admin so if pkgrm did not work I have no idea as to what to tell you to do to remove it. Are you sure you have root priv's? that is one thing that may keep you from removing the pkg.

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