topic make_recovery failure in Operating System - HP-UX

make_recovery failure

Chris Fadrowski — Mon, 13 May 2002 17:53:24 GMT

When trying to execute a MR, i get this message;

vxfs: mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/vg00/lvol9 file system full (1 block extent)
make_recovery(466): Call to /opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif failed.
Check the /var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log1 file.
Cleanup

Can i delete tombstones from 1999? I could clear some things out of /var. Any suggestions as to what?

this is what is in the log.

UX System Recovery" >> /var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log1 2>&1
lifcp: file truncated, no space on the LIF volume
make_medialif: error - lifcp SYSCMDS failed, probable insufficient size for /var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery

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Ended Unsuccessfully - Mon May 13 13:52:16 2002

Re: make_recovery failure

steven Burgess_2 — Mon, 13 May 2002 17:58:05 GMT

Hi

There's quite a lot of stuff in var you can clear down

Have a look at mail files in /var/mail

If you don't use these for any purpose

>/var/mail/root

You can also clear logs down using sam -

Have a look at the log files in /var

find /var -name *.log

I would also say there's no harm clearing the file from tombstones

zip it if you want to keep using gzip

Regards

Steve

Re: make_recovery failure

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 13 May 2002 18:01:36 GMT

Hi Chris:

Yes, you can delete the 'tombstones' files. Keep 'ts99' since this is always the most recent one. These files contain hardware information that is useful in the event of a full crash.

Use 'cleanup' to recover space in /var at large. If you are on 11.x use:

# cleanup -c 1

For 10.20, simply use 'cleanup' without other arguments.

You can remove unused files in '/var/tmp'. Look at '/var/preserve' too for any old editor recovery files that can be removed.

Don't forget that if you have 'var/adm/wtmp' for last logins and/or 'var/adm/btmp' that these files will grow very large. You can redirect /dev/null into them to clear them.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: make_recovery failure

Helen French — Mon, 13 May 2002 18:03:58 GMT

Hi Chris:

Check the file system usage with:

# bdf

If the /var is full, then delete the unwanted files:
1) Remove files from /var/adm/crash, if not required for crash dump analysis ( last system crash data)
2) Files from /var/tombstones ( delete if not needed for any HPMC hardware error details). I would defenitley delete files which are older.
3) Check the bigger files:
# cd /var
# du -k | sort -rn
# find /var -xdev -size +10000 -exec ll {}\;
4) Check and trim the log files, wtmp, utmp files if not required.

HTH,
Shiju

Re: make_recovery failure

Sanjay_6 — Mon, 13 May 2002 18:06:17 GMT

Hi,

you can clear /var/tombstones directory. Just leave the file ts99 if you want. Else you can remove that too. Look for crash directories in /var/adm/crash. These crash directories are created every time the system crashes and comes up. It you have multiple directories over here, you can clean up the old ones if you don't need them. Clean up /var/adm/sa directory too if you want.

you can also use the cleanup utility that comes as a patch to cleanup the old superceded patches from your system.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: make_recovery failure

hari jayaram_1 — Mon, 13 May 2002 18:10:13 GMT

hi,

From the looks of the error message it is complaining about file system lvol9 not sure what that file system is.

However if you want to clear up var please do the following

Please check /var/adm/crash if you have any old dumps and /var/log/syslog for large logfiles.

If you are running 10.20 then just the cleanup command should be fine if you are running use the cleanup -c or -d option after looking up the man page.

Thanks

Rgds

Hari

Re: make_recovery failure

James George_1 — Mon, 13 May 2002 18:13:15 GMT

Hi

You can clear the old tombstone files and also , if your /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file is too big, trim that and other log files using SAM...also look for core files and clean . I would suggest to use cleanup -c 2 rather than cleanup - c 1

Good luck
James