Booting up hang - vxfs: mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/vg00/lvol4 file system full

[Jayyidy]

Dear Gurus,

pls help me. I'm running HPUX 11.0.
When using 'sam' in console, something wrong with the keyboard, that force me to kill some 'sam' processes via telnet, than run 'shutdown -r -y 0'.

In the process of shutting down, this message appeared:
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Stop RPC daemon ........................................... OK
Stop DCE daemons ..........................................

vxfs: mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/vg00/lvol4 file system full (1 block extent)
OK
Stopping OSPF MIB Network Management subAgent ............. N/A
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Then, we it starting up showed failure in below steps:
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...
Configuer LAN interface...... [FAIL] *
Start name server daemon..... [N/A]
Start NFS core subsytem ..... [busy/wait]
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The process keep hanging in that status until now.

My friend told me to use ISL to clean the full space, I don't know steps to do that.
- What should I do to get into ISL ?
- What command to freeze space in /dev/vg00/lvol4 ?

Very much appreciate to your helps....

Regards,
Jayy.

[Naveej.K.A · Accepted solution]

hi jay,

YOu have your /tmp filesystem full.

Boot into single user mode and delete the files which you may not require.

***) boot the server
***) interrupt the boot sequence, when prompted to within 10 seconds
***) type in boot pri at main menu
***) It asks whether you want to interact with ISL...type Y
***) comes to ISL prompt...and type hpux -is

you are booted into single user mode.

mount /tmp
cd /tmp
and you can remove the files
then type init 3 to boot into multi user mode

with best wishes
Naveej

[Jayyidy]

Hi Naveej,

I've run into single user mode.
When mounting /tmp, this message appears:

vxfs mount: /dev/vg00/lvol4 is corrupted. needs checking.

when seeing into /tmp, found hundreds of file like sh???.1 sh???.2 etc...
'cat'-ing on of file showing:
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Subject: HOSTNAME modified during active DHCP lease....bla..bla..bla..
can view config in : /usr/lbin/dhcpdb2conf
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looking into /usr there is no file nor directory under it. ls => total 0

run "init 3", still resulted same failure:
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....
vxfs: mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/vg00/lvol4 file system full (1 block extent)
...
Configuer LAN interface...... [FAIL] *
Start name server daemon..... [N/A]
Start NFS core subsytem ..... [busy/wait]
____________________________________


Pls further help.... thanks.

[Naveej.K.A]

hi,

boot in the single user mode

do an fsck on /dev/vg01/lvol4
before mounting

mount the /tmp.
delete those files

you are not able to see anything in /usr becuase your /usr is not mounted.

mount /usr
and you will be able to see the contents of /usr

with best wishes
naveej

[Tapas Jha]

Hi,

From tyhe console press Control+B and then go to GSP mode enter login and password(for my case login and password are nothing so we entered it).
From the GSP mode press TC command(RS command also will reset and reboot the system but to check what went wrong it is better user TC so that log willbe there)
Then it will reboot and follow Naveen's procedure to make it single user mode.


Now fsck /dev/vg00/lvol4
Now, mount the /tmp.
Now,mount /usr
Delete files which is causing problem and then reboot the system.

That's all.

Rgds
Tapas

[Jayyidy]

Hi Naveej & Tapas,

Thank so much for your help.
It works now !!

Rgds,
Jayy.

[rmueller58]

We had a similar problem over the weekend. Thanks for the thread..