topic Re: Error message in Ignite in Operating System - HP-UX

Error message in Ignite

Shibu George P — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:40:48 GMT

Hi,
I taken ignite backup on Itanium server(rx8640). But at the end of the log file I got the following error message.
Anyone can explain what does it mean?
Can I ignore this message?

WARNING: Cannot find device file: /dev/rdsk/di
WARNING: Cannot find device file: 50
WARNING: Cannot find device file: 92
WARNING: Cannot find device file: 47
WARNING: Cannot find device file: 86

======= 01/21/08 16:32:21 GMT make_tape_recovery completed with warnings

Re: Error message in Ignite

Pete Randall — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:48 GMT

I wonder if you have some bogus device files in /dev. Do an "ls -l" on them and see what they look like. If they are regular files then they should be deleted.

Pete

Re: Error message in Ignite

Mridul Shrivastava — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:14:26 GMT

These are just warnings about the non-exstent device files. These messages can be ignored safely.

It is just warning not an error message.

make_tape_recovery completed with warnings and it is quite normal.

Re: Error message in Ignite

VK2COT — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:08:51 GMT

Hello,

You did not specify version of HP-UX that the
server runs.

If, by any chance, it runs HP-UX 11.31, there
is a new command-line option that helps find
stale devices:

lssf -s

Otherwise, your Ignite backup is still OK.
Errors are not critical.

Cheers,

VK2COT

Re: Error message in Ignite

Armin Kunaschik — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:39:38 GMT

Sometimes (if not removed correctly) device files stay in the filesystem but the devices are not present anymore.
If lssf gives you an error you're (probably) save to remove the file(s) with rm or rmsf.
Try to find the files without the path with:
find / -type b (or find / -type c)

Try to avoid orphaned device files. When "ioscan -fnk|grep NO_HW" prints out any devices remove them with rmsf -H (e.g. to get rid of unpresented SAN LUN's do
"ioscan -fnkCdisk|awk '/NO_HW/ {print $3}'|xargs -n1 rmsf -H"

My 2 cents,
Armin