topic Re: Ignite Warning in Operating System - HP-UX

Ignite Warning

Waqar Razi — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:05:28 GMT

We have a 10.20 server and we are getting a warning in taking the ignite backup on the tape with the following message in the recovery.log file:

* Preparing to create a system archive
lifls(open): No such device or address
lifls: Can't list /dev/dsk/c5t6d0; file not opened
WARNING: /dev/dsk/c5t6d0 is not a lif volume.
No LIF files on the boot disk will be archived.
Check /stand/bootconf, man bootconf(4), and /dev/dsk to
make sure that the bootconf file is set up correctly.
WARNING: /dev/dsk/c5t6d0 is not a lif volume.
No LIF files on the boot disk will be archived.
Check /stand/bootconf, man bootconf(4), and /dev/dsk to
make sure that the bootconf file is set up correctly.

* Archiving contents of APPLE via tar image to local device/dev/rmt/2mn.
Broken pipe
cat: Cannot write to output.
* Creation of system archive complete

Can some one please give me an idea.

Re: Ignite Warning

sujit kumar singh — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:19:39 GMT

can u just tell if the root disk is mirrored and also can u attach vgdisplay -v vg00, strings /etc/lvmtab lvlnboot -v and cat /stand/bbotconf file?
What seems is that one of the boot disks is not properly configured.

Please give the requested O/ps

If that is so u might need to update the /stand/bootconf and might need to run the mkboot -a hpux on the disk.

the O/Ps requested shall give a clearer pic.

regards

Sujit

Re: Ignite Warning

Waqar Razi — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:43:57 GMT

Please find attached the output if the indicated commands:

Re: Ignite Warning

sujit kumar singh — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:22:02 GMT

as ur lvlnboot and the vg00 display tells that ur system has 2 disks in the vg00 that is root VG and that both are with all LVs mirrored and seem to be bootbale.

Seeing at ur standbootconf i think u will have to edit this file and put the entries for the boot disks there.

#vi /stand/bootconf -- and the following lines commenting the existing one.
#l /dev/dsk/c5t6d0
l /dev/dsk/c1t6d0
l /dev/dsk/c2t6d0

save and exit. the first character in the Lines of /stand/bootconf is small "L" and not 1(one).

do an #lvlnboot -R
do not worry it will not harm ur running system.

now take an ignite, that will be successful hopefully if not any other issues is there.

regards

Sujit

Re: Ignite Warning

sujit kumar singh — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:28:00 GMT

please do not forget to assign the points if the solution turns to give u some clue to solve ur prob helps u immensely

Sujit

Re: Ignite Warning

sujit kumar singh — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:49:34 GMT

did ur problem get resolved ? are u able to take the Ignite backup of the system ???

regards

Sujit

Re: Ignite Warning

sujit kumar singh — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:47:55 GMT

Hi Waqar,

In case of the systems where there is mirroring done on the root VG and that /stand/bootconf and lvlnboot is not consistent u are likely to face these errors from the Ignite.

In that case u need to update the /stand/bootconf and lvlnboot properly on the system that u want to take an ignite backup.

Like a problem that i faced in performing an ignite backup on tape for an 11.23 system which had one of the root disk failed.

I was allowed to take an ignite only when i removed the unavailable mirror components of the exixting LVs using
#lvreduce -m 0 -k /dev/vg00/lvol1 0
#vgreduce -f /dev/vg00
#lvlnboot -R

the system had the root disk mirror that had a PV Key 0 that was showing stale as the disk had failed.

then only i could take an Ignite of the System.

Later on when i shall need to add a disk to the system i will need to mirror that starting from the scratch with on the new disk doing all pvcreate -B and creating all the 3 Partitions EFI, HPUX and HPSP( I have an Integrity System that is why i need to create the 3 Parttitions as said) and follow all the steps doing that.

last of all when the LVs on the new disk are mirrored i will have to do an

#lvlnboot -R

Add the entry of the root disk again to the /stand/bootconf and properly do a setboot to achieve that disk to be set as an Alternate path

Thanks and Regards

sujit