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/var/log full

Mathieu P. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:00:06 GMT

Hello, I have a puzzling problem.

I have 11.31 and there is something filling up my log. I dont quite understand it (I also think it may relates to other troubles in the bootup process.

I have attached the full " HP-UX Start-up in progress", any suggestions !?

Thx,

Matt.

Re: /var/log full

Pete Randall — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:05:42 GMT

First off, it would be helpful to know what is mounted at /dev/vg00/lvol8. Post "bdf" output so we can tell. Presumably it is /var and it is /var that is full, not /var/log. Post the output of "du -sk /var/* |sort -n" and we can take a look at what might be filling things.

Pete

Re: /var/log full

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:06:04 GMT

Hi Matt:

OK, so what's taking all of your space in '/var'?

You might run 'cleanup -c 1' to discard rollback copies of patches superceded at least once. Do *not* remove anything manually from '/var/adm/sw'.

See if you have any crash dumps in '/var/adm/crash'.

You could look at your logs in '/var/adm' too.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: /var/log full

Mathieu P. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:10:19 GMT

Problem is that I cant bootup, hangs on bootup at : "Start NFS core system.

So for now I managed to go single user mode (hpux -is).

Re: /var/log full

Torsten. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:12:08 GMT

Reason for this is the failed network start.

This must be fixed first - besides the space problem.

Re: /var/log full

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:27:24 GMT

Hi (again) Matt:

> Problem is that I cant bootup, hangs on bootup at : "Start NFS core system

You might be able to break this by hitting the CONTROL key plus a pipe ( "|" ) symbol.

This will allow you to continue the startup.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: /var/log full

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:34:34 GMT

Hi (again):

> Problem is that I cant bootup, hangs on bootup at : "Start NFS core system.

Well, stating that that was your principal question at the onset would have been more appropriate than the subject line you did.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: /var/log full

Mathieu P. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:40:14 GMT

bdf output :
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 1048576 315384 727480 30% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 1835008 291216 1531824 16% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8 8912896 8912896 0 100% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7 4456448 2854712 1589296 64% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4 524288 21176 499192 4% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6 10485760 4961384 5481272 48% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5 114688 5840 108008 5% /home
DevFS 13 13 0 100% /dev/deviceFileSystem

Re: /var/log full

Vivek Bhatia — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:41:02 GMT

Hi,

As i have gone through the logs attached.

Error:
vxfs: msgcnt 4 mesg 001: V-2-1: vx_nospace - /dev/vg00/lvol8 file system full

This is the error which has repeated many times, so it seems that someone has copied and /var is full.

so you can run du command to check the files with maximum size.

du -k /var/* |sort -n -r |more

1. Check if someone has accidently copied a big file in /var
2. Increase the size of /var of space is available in the VG using

fsadm -F vxfs -b M /var
fsadm -F vxfs -b 6000M /var
so the size of the /var becomes 6000MB.

Revert if you have any other question.

Regards
Vivek Bhatia

Re: /var/log full

Mathieu P. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:56:10 GMT

Ok,

problem is /var/opt/hpsmh/session/0001

I had HUGE logs in there ! Thats what happens when you dont kill jobs running in the background !

So I deleted these files, /var went from 100% to 7 % !

Thanks all :)

Re: /var/log full

Victor Fridyev — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:24:23 GMT

Hi,
Can you check name resolution for the server hostname ? Usually such a thing happens when the hostname is defined differently in /etc/hosts (or NIS, or DNS) and /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

HTH