failure in kernel rebuild

[Scott Dunkley]

Hi all,

I am trying to claw back some space from VG00 so I can install a new patch bundle. My system is running HP-UX 11.00. So far I have,

trimmed the logs
run cleanup -i and -c

I was having a look through SAM and found an option to remove unused file sets so I chose that and run phase 1 but not phase 2. This failed configuring the kernel so I tried it manually and got the same error. The errors are listed below:

ishpd380# mk_kernel -s system
WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio pa.
Ignoring the following line.
pa
WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio autofsc.
Ignoring the following line.
autofsc
WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio nfsm.
Ignoring the following line.
nfsm
WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio rpcmod.
Ignoring the following line.
rpcmod
WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio num_clients.
Ignoring the following line.
num_clients 40
Compiling conf.c...
Loading the kernel...
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:
socachecallback (code)
*** Error exit code 1

Stop.
config: make did an exit(1)

Can someone explain what this means and how I correct the problem. I guess its the symbol problem that is causing the failure as the other messages say ignored.

[Steven E. Protter]

Perhaps we have cleaned a little too much?

You didn't remove any files from /stand did you?

dmesg

Something appears to be removed or unmounted or missing.

SEP

[Scott Dunkley]

I did remove the .prev files from .stand (not removed just moved) as I guessed I was having a space issue, /stand was 80% full.

I have just run dmesg and it reports /stand as full see below:

/stand: file system full
/stand: file system full
ishpd380# bdf
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 86016 76179 9247 89% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 47829 21539 21507 50% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8 614400 445172 160899 73% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7 819200 535291 266961 67% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4 32768 6581 24674 21% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6 438272 232964 193045 55% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5 20480 1109 18168 6% /home
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 2457600 2457600 0 100% /cdrom
ishpd380#

I have a few Mb left in VG00 enough to exetnd /stand by 40Mb or so which will give me enough space however it needs to be contgious so can I actually do this?

I guess /stand is fillinmg up during the mk_kernel and then rolls it back out on failure, is that right?

[Scott Dunkley]

quick update, tried the mk_kernel again but it failed the same. I dont think this is space related as there is no new message in the syslog, only the messages from an hour a go when I tried it the first time.

Another question is wether my system will boot as is? I presume it hasnt actually changed the existing kernel so cant see why it wouldn't boot.

[doug mielke]

You may want to poke around in the /usr/conf directory, and look at file dates. It could be that sam corrupted something here. I've never done it in HP/UX, but in other flavors it has been safe to simply replace these files from a backup or even another system.

Again, I cant say this works on HP/UX, but it's an idea.

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi,

first of all report .prev kernel in /stand and then boot from it:

- stop boot and interacyt with IPL;
- insert the string
hpux (;0)/stand/vmunix.prev

it should go up.

HTH.

Best regards,
Ettore

[Scott Dunkley]

the system is still up and I havnt actually tried a reboot yet as I am nervous it wont come up. Am hoping for a response to this overnight, if no response by tommorow I will put the re instate the .prev files and reboot.

I dont understand why letting the system decide which filesets need removing has now caused the kernel not to rebuild!!!!!