topic Re: .: No such device or address in Operating System - HP-UX

.: No such device or address

Nik_1 — Mon, 27 May 2002 13:44:15 GMT

Hi,

Ok, before I go any further, this is a solaris box (don't flame me! 99% I use HPUX!) Anyway, you guys always help me out so quickly, I just wondered if anyone could help on this one... it's not exactly solaris, I guess it could apply to HP?

I have a kinda weird problem, where If I 'cd' into a directory it's ok, but when I do an 'ls' I get:

.: No such device or address

If I do a 'df -k' the directory is mounted on:

/dev/vx/dsk/datadg/oldlogs

and I can 'ls -la' that file and get:

brw------- 1 root root 157,106023 Dec 3 1999 oldlogs

Now we did replace this disk the other day, but I have other directories mounted on /dev/vx/dsk/datadg which are working ok...

thanks!
Nik

Re: .: No such device or address

Steve Steel — Mon, 27 May 2002 13:56:56 GMT

Hi

Guess that it is marked as mounted but isnt.

Try to unmount and remount.

cd would just go to mountpoint

ls would give . (current directory )
no such device or address0

Steve Steel

Re: .: No such device or address

Roger Baptiste — Mon, 27 May 2002 14:22:54 GMT

hi,

I guess, the directory(filesystem) is not mounted. Do a grep "directory" /etc/fstab to see it's mount source and then run the mount command using that info.

HTH
raj

Re: .: No such device or address

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 27 May 2002 14:24:57 GMT

did you reboot since replacing the disk?

It's odd that it would appear as such if the rest of the filesystem is okay. Are you certain it's all one filesystem?

What does the /etc/fstab and /etc/mnttab reveal?

Later,
Bill

Re: .: No such device or address

Nik_1 — Mon, 27 May 2002 14:44:53 GMT

Thanks for the responses!

If I try and mount it I get:

vxfs mount: Cannot open /dev/vx/dsk/datadg/oldlogs: No such device or address.

But the device file exists and looks ok? (see above)

Nik

Re: .: No such device or address

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 27 May 2002 14:49:44 GMT

The disk has possibly not been recognised at the same hardware location.. or not activated by the disk management subsystem.
It doesn't necessarily mean the device files are invalid, but that the device file to hardware liason is.

You should ask on the sun forums, I'm sure you'll get a diagnostic from there.
http://forum.sun.com

Later,
Bill

Re: .: No such device or address

Nik_1 — Mon, 27 May 2002 14:53:55 GMT

Thanks for your help everyone. I'm off to forum.sun.com

Re: .: No such device or address

Wodisch — Mon, 27 May 2002 16:49:27 GMT

Hi Nik,

maybe you check back some day...

Since the output of your "ls -l" shows the file type to be a BLOCK DEVICE this will never work! Somehow somebody has removed the directory "oldlogs" and created (mknod) a block device instead in its place - very nasty idea :-(

"rm" that block device file, "mkdir" the oldlogs dir again, and try again, would be my advice...

HTH,
Wodisch