ERROR: Failed to generate LIF on tape

[Kevin Farrell_3]

Anybody have any idea what this error is all about?
/opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif[487]: gzip: not found.
make_medialif: error - gzip failure on scripts, probable insufficient disk space
in /var/tmp
ERROR: System Error, /opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif failed creating boot LIF
file.
ERROR: Failed to generate LIF on tape .


======= 06/08/04 16:12:19 EDT make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully
root(falcon)/root:
#model
9000/800/L2000-5X
root(falcon)/root:
#uname -a
HP-UX falcon B.11.11 U 9000/800 128921567 unlimited-user license

#swlist -l product | grep -i ignite
Ignite-UX B.3.4.115 HP-UX System Installation Services
root(falcon)/root:

#bdf
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 147456 93489 50720 65% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 95701 30966 55164 36% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8 1540096 1311494 217669 86% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7 1228800 823404 380069 68% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4 1032192 52581 918950 5% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6 1228800 1079505 139968 89% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5 65536 15347 47264 25% /home
/dev/vg00/lvol9 40960000 31738288 9150664 78% /d02/apps
/dev/vg01/lvol1 67481600 32276864 35006784 48% /d01/apps
cardinal:/stage 41934848 33059472 8837304 79% /stage
root(falcon)/root

#ls
INSTCMDS Rel_B.11.00 examples tutorial
RECCMDS Rel_B.11.11 scripts

#ioscan -fnC tape
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=====================================================================
tape 0 0/0/1/0.3.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP C1537A
/dev/rmt/0m /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BESTn
/dev/rmt/0mb /dev/rmt/c0t3d0BESTnb
/dev/rmt/0mn /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDS
/dev/rmt/0mnb /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDSb
/dev/rmt/c0t3d0BEST /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDSn
/dev/rmt/c0t3d0BESTb /dev/rmt/c0t3d0DDSnb

[Ashwani Kashyap]

The first line says it cannot find gzip to compress the LIF and send it to tape .

Do you have gzip on your system and is it in your current PATH .

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Agree with Ashwani,

Download gzip from http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gzip-1.3.5/

Gzip will be installed in /usr/local/bin add it to your PATH and ignite will run.

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[Mike Jones_2]

If you are running the job in batch mode, make sure the new gzip is in the system PATH. To be safe, you can always replace the default gzip executable with the new one or with a link to the new versions location.

I've also received the "Failed to generate LIF" message due to /var filling up. Ignite creates an 80+MB file in /var/tmp while creating the LIF. Your /var should have enough space but it's something else to keep in mind when you see that message.