Cause

In this case, the message occurred during booting. The system was sharing an SSA1XX with an identical system. The user was also getting an error in disk group configuration copies during booting. The identical system was booting up fine--without error messages. vxconfigd died. A vxprivutil scan of one of the disks indicated the following:

diskid:  880409237.1043.system_that_comes_up 
hostid: none