Ignite-UX completed unsuccessfully.

[samir_18]

Hi everybody,

when I run make_tape_recovery on hp-ux 11.11 i got the following error :
#make_tape_recovery -AI -a /dev/rmt/51mn

...
...
..

* Creating The Tape Archive
lifcp: Cannot create SYSCMDS ; no space on the LIF volume
make_medialif: error - lifcp SYSCMDS failed, probable insufficient size for /var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery
ERROR: System Error, /opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif failed creating boot LIF file.
ERROR: Failed to generate LIF on tape .


======= 04/05/05 12:38:35 CAT make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully

can anyone tell me what is the possible cause of this Error ?

Thanks in Advance.
Samir.

[MarkSyder]

Probably insufficient size for /var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery:

Have you tried bdf -il to see how full /var is?

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[samir_18]

ya,
the /var has total of 5 GB and used only 7%

#bdf
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on

/dev/vg00/lvol8 5120000 339520 4748080 7% /var

[Stephen Keane]

It probably means the LIF file is too small to copy SYSCMDS in to it, rather than the space avaiable on /var.

If the file /var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery still exists, do a 'lifls -l' on it and post the response.

HP in their 'cunning' way have hard-coded the size of the LIF file in their make_medialif script. The only way to increase the size of the LIF file is to manually edit make_medialif and change the line

# Create lif volume using ipl_options

lifinit $ipl_options -v72000000 -d24 -nISL10 -K2 -s4096 $lif_file ||
fatal "lifinit failed"

You would have to increase -v72000000 to allow more room (its in 256 byte sectors). The LIF is created as a fixed size, then files are copied in to it. Why HP can't determine the correct size before copying the files in to it escapes me.

[Steven E. Protter]

It would seem that you have enough space on /var for the Ignite image on /var.

The LIF area is the first thing written to a make_tape_recovery Ignite archive.

There may be a problem with the LIF area itself that needs to be addressed so that the archive will be able to create a bootable tape.

That's the area I'd investigate.

SEP

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi Samir,

Check this doc.

Document description: IUX: make_tape_recovery fails w/ "lifcp: Cannot create SYSCMDS"
Document id: KBRC00010009

Could be you need to upgrade you ignite version.

Bets regards,
Robert-Jan

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

forgot the link.

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000073838490

[samir_18]

thanks all.
it has been solved