In non-English locales, the Solaris Volume Manager metassist command might fail to create volumes. For example, if LANG is set to ja (Japanese), the following error message is displayed:
xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant : input not UTF-8 Syntax of value for attribute read on mirror is not valid Value "XXXXXX"(unknown word) for attribute read on mirror is not among the enumerated set Syntax of value for attribute write on mirror is not valid Value "XXXXXX"(Parallel in Japanse) for attribute write on mirror is not among the enumerated set metassist: XXXXXX(invalid in Japanese) volume-config |
Workaround: As superuser, set the LANG variable to LANG=C.
For the Bourne, Korn, and Bash shells, use the following command:
# LANG=C; export LANG |
For the C shell, use the following command:
# setenv LANG C |