make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully

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HI

I have installed Ignite C.7.13.259 on an 11.31 RP8420.

I am trying to:

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -I -a /dev/rmt/4mn -x inc_entire=vg00 -v 2>&1 | tee /tmp/recovery_tape.txt

But I am getting:

** 0 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Not included in the
               System Recovery Archive
        ** 1 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Partially included in the
               System Recovery Archive
        ** 2 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Fully included in the
               System Recovery Archive

       * Scanning system for IO devices...
       * Boot device is: 0/0/0/2/0.0x6.0x0
ERROR:   System Error, /opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif failed creating boot LIF file.
ERROR:   Failed to generate LIF on tape.

       * Creating local directories for configuration files and archive.

=======  01/31/12 10:25:33 GMT  Started /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery. (Tue Jan 31 10:25:33 GMT 2012)
         @(#)Ignite-UX Revision C.7.13.259
         @(#)ignite/net_recovery (opt) Revision: /branches/IUX_RA1109/ignite/src@83994 Last Modified: 2011-08-22 13:38:37 +0530 (Mon, 22 Aug 2011)

       * Recovery Archive Description = Recovery Archive

       * Recovery Archive Location    = /dev/rmt/4mn

       * Number of Archives to Save   = 2

       * Pax type  = tar

        In?     dsk/vg  name                    minor#  Associated disks/mountpoints
        2       v       /dev/vg00               0x00    /dev/disk/disk2
                                                /dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand  2
                                                /dev/vg00/lvol2
                                                /dev/vg00/lvol3 /       2
                                                /dev/vg00/lvol4 /opt    2
                                                /dev/vg00/lvol5 /tmp    2
                                                /dev/vg00/lvol6 /usr    2
                                                /dev/vg00/lvol7 /home   2
                                                /dev/vg00/lvol8 /var    2
       * Checking Versions of Ignite-UX filesets
       * Creating System Configuration.
       * /opt/ignite/bin/save_config -f /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2012-01-31,10:25/system_cfg vg00
       * Backing Up Volume Group /dev/vg00
       * /usr/sbin/vgcfgbackup /dev/vg00
       * Creating Map Files for Volume Group /dev/vg00
       * /usr/sbin/vgexport -s -p -m /etc/lvmconf/vg00.mapfile /dev/vg00

       * Creating Control Configuration.
       * Creating Archive File List
       * Creating Archive Configuration

       * /opt/ignite/lbin/make_arch_config -c /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2012-01-31,10:25/archive_cfg -g /var/opt/ignite/recovery/2012-01-31,10:25/flist -n
         2012-01-31,10:25 -r pa -b 64 -d Recovery\ Archive -t 1 -i 1 -m t
       * Saving the information about archive to /var/opt/ignite/recovery/previews
       * Creating The Tape Archive
       * Checking configuration file for Syntax
make_medialif: ERROR: Cannot lifcp -r -K2 file "/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.31/SYSCMDSIA" to "/var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery:SYSCMDSIA":
        lifcp: Cannot create SYSCMDSIA ; no space on the LIF volume

=======  01/31/12 10:26:16 GMT  make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully

I have tried installing PHSS_27407, but I am facing the swinstall message:

 Currently, there are no products on this source which are compatible │   │
│┌──│ with the target.  Therefore, no products are shown.   

I'm confused.

Can you help please?

Regards

Tariq

[Torsten.]

The patch is for 11.00, this cannot work at all.


>> make_medialif: ERROR: Cannot lifcp -r -K2 file "/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.31/SYSCMDSIA" to "/var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery:SYSCMDSIA":
lifcp: Cannot create SYSCMDSIA ; no space on the LIF volume


Still enough space in /var/tmp ??

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Torsten

I have 16GB available.

# bdf
Filesystem          kbytes    used   avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3    2097152  333312 1750072   16% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1    1776056   40800 1557648    3% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8    16777216  426384 16223216    3% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol6    6291456 2105376 4153472   34% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol5    4194304  466728 3698456   11% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol4    8388608 3555040 4795864   43% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol7     131072    5792  124312    4% /home

[Torsten.]

I assume google delivers you some pages with this old patch mentioned. As you can see, this should be solved since years.

The strange thing is, it complaines about "SYSCMDSIA" - this is for itanium.

But you say you have a RISC based system (model?).

# model

In a very first step I would eject and re-insert the tape into the drive and run



# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/4mn

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Torsten

I have arranged for our onsite to re-insert the tape.

Meanwhile:

# model
9000/800/rp8420
# uname -a
HP-UX lordrapo B.11.31 U 9000/800 3502276056 unlimited-user license
# swlist | grep -i ignite
  IGNITE                C.7.13.259     HP-UX Installation Utilities (Ignite-UX)
  Ignite-UX-11-31       C.7.13.259     HP-UX Installation Utilities for Installing 11.31 Systems

Regards

Tariq

[Torsten.]

Meanwhile you could try to rewind the tape first

# mt -f /dev/rmt/4mn rew

and then run

# /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/4mn

What kind of tape drive is it?

# ioscan -fn

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# ioscan -fnCtape
Class     I  H/W Path        Driver S/W State   H/W Type     Description
========================================================================
tape      4  0/0/12/1/1.1.0  stape   CLAIMED     DEVICE       HP      Ultrium 4-SCSI
                            /dev/rmt/4m            /dev/rmt/4mn           /dev/rmt/c5t1d0BEST    /dev/rmt/c5t1d0BESTn
                            /dev/rmt/4mb           /dev/rmt/4mnb          /dev/rmt/c5t1d0BESTb   /dev/rmt/c5t1d0BESTnb
tape      5  0/0/14/1/1.2.0  stape   CLAIMED     DEVICE       HP      Ultrium 4-SCSI
                            /dev/rmt/5m            /dev/rmt/5mn           /dev/rmt/c7t2d0BEST    /dev/rmt/c7t2d0BESTn
                            /dev/rmt/5mb           /dev/rmt/5mnb          /dev/rmt/c7t2d0BESTb   /dev/rmt/c7t2d0BESTnb

I have also tried rewinding, makes no differnce!

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Torsten

Re-inserting the drive made no difference.

make_medialif: ERROR: Cannot lifcp -r -K2 file "/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.31/SYSCMDSIA" to "/var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery:SYSCMDSIA":
        lifcp: Cannot create SYSCMDSIA ; no space on the LIF volume
ERROR:   System Error, /opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif failed creating boot LIF file.
ERROR:   Failed to generate LIF on tape.

=======  01/31/12 12:16:19 GMT  make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully

# ll /opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.31/
total 376080
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin        21445113 Aug 28 20:33 INSTCMDS
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin        42518018 Aug 28 21:32 INSTCMDSIA
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin         297609 Aug 28 20:33 RECCMDS
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin         576410 Aug 28 21:32 RECCMDSIA
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin        48631242 Aug 28 20:34 SYSCMDS
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin        79022478 Aug 28 21:33 SYSCMDSIA
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin          22999 Aug 28 18:30 config
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin            927 Aug 28 20:47 hw_patches_cfg

[Torsten.]

Hmmm, could you compare the file size

/var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery

with a known to work system and also

lifls -v /var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery

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This is a fresh out of the box build.

Other than installing Ignite, do I need to install anything else?