Error on make_tape_recovery

[Christopher McCray_1]

Hello all,

I have been going through the process of updating all my 11.00 server's versions of ignite to version B.3.6.82. I have done this successsfully on several of my servers (N, L and K class servers). I have now one K-460 that is giving me the following errors:

WARNING: '/opt/mqm/bin/amqcrsta' is part of a circular link.
ERROR: Circular link error encountered. Aborting.
ERROR: list_expander returned an error.
ERROR: Failed to get the archive size and the list of files which will be in
archive.


======= 05/09/02 10:46:17 EDT make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully

Here is the upgrade process I have used:
1) use swremove to remove old version in this case 2.2.157
2) apply pax patch PHCO_25418
3) use swinstall to install new version.

I have all necessary dependencies for the patch.

Can you guys help me out here. I tried the search function as well as the Technical Knowledge Base to no avail.

Thanks in advance for your help

Chris

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

The "circular link" message means you got s file/dir that links to itself. I have not seen such error before but I'm guessing make_tape_recovery does not like that until you remove that link.

[Christopher McCray_1]

Thank you for the focus lesson, S.K.

The make_tape_recovery is going as we speak.


the /opt/mqm/bin/amqcrsta is supposed to be linked to /opt/mqm/bin/amqcrsta_nd, as verified on my other servers with MQSeries. I wonder if this had any impacting problems with the application. But out of curiosity, why didn't my previous version care about this?

Anyway, thanks a ton!!!
Chris

[S.K. Chan]

From what I understand previous version of ignite (prior to B.3.6.82) will allow you to proceed even if it detected a circular link like the one you had which is bad because then you'll have a recovery media which is not "clean". It's good you've upgraded !!

[Helen French]

Hi Chris:

This document gives an explanation why the old version of ignite, doesn't report the error. The added funtion has the "list_expander error" on that (TKB #8606206505):

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=a7c23ef20029ec5165/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055450228

HTH,
Shiju

[Christopher McCray_1]

I'm sorry in advance if I didn't get the jist of the doc you sent. When I brought it up it was entitled Patch sums and the MD5 program. I looked all through it and found nothing pertaining to my situation.

Thanks anyways for your assistance

Chris

[Helen French]

Hi Chris:

This was the document - TKB #8606206505:

Problem/Title:
"make_tape_recovery will report success even if error in creating archive"

Fix Text:

Ad following code to generate_flist....()


val_pclose = pclose(fp);
if (WIFEXITED(val_pclose)){
if (WEXITSTATUS(val_pclose)== 1){
Log(LOG_ERROR, LOG_TO_DEF,
"list_expander returned an error.");
return(ERROR_RETURN);
}else if (WEXITSTATUS(val_pclose)== 2){
Log(LOG_WARNING, LOG_TO_DEF,
"list_expander returned a warning,please check the log
file.");
warning_flag++;
}
}else{
Log(LOG_ERROR, LOG_TO_DEF,
"list_expander failed to exit correctly.");
return(ERROR_RETURN);
}

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As this was an additional function that was not in the older version and might have been included in the new ones, I thought will point out this. This function included the 'list_expander' error as described in your original post. Sorry if it didn't help :((

just my 2 cents ..
Shiju

[Christopher McCray_1]

Thanks, Shiju, for pasting the information in your post. I couldn't find it by TKB# or by title. But your information did help. I thank you for staying with it.

Chris