Help.... SOS!!!

[Sean Kuruvilla]

I keep getting this error when I try to log into my HPUX 11.0.b system. I hae made the system a trusted one and I have turned on auditing. What can I do to fix this?

[Peter Godron]

Sean,
this does not like a system generated error ! ;-)
I would suggest you post the actual error message (I assume you have forgotten to attach)

[Sean Kuruvilla]

Opps, sorry. Here is the error message I since my /root directory has run out of space due to auditing being turned on.

"vxfs: mesg001: vx_nospace - /dev/root file system full (1 block extent)"

My question is how can I log on to clean my root directory.

[Mel Burslan]

/dev/root tells me that you have booted in LVM maintenance mode and your / filesystem ran out of space.

neither of the situations is good. first off you need to boot the system and at the boot time you should not choose to interact with the system. If you still see /dev/root, you should change your autoboot sequence NOT to contain something like "hpux -lq"

to remedy the space problem on "/" look for large files under /dev which are not device files. This usually does the work for me :

ls -Rl /dev | grep ^"-"

if there are any regular files under /dev/ you can safely delete them.

Also look for stray files left on /, especially core files.

Hope this helps a little.

[IT_2007]

you won't be able to login until you cleanup on / filesytem. If the system already in single user mode. Try to remove some unwanted files under / and reboot system to multi user mode.

[Sean Kuruvilla]

It will not allow my to log-in under my root password. I need to know a way to get into the server so I may do these fixes. I should be in Multi-user mode, I haven't changed anything.

[Mel Burslan]

reset server
at the "press any key in next 10 seconds" prompt, press a key and interrupt boot
at the main menu, type

boot primary
answer yes to "do you want to interact with ISL" question

it will boot to the ISL prompt and wait for you. at this point type

ISL> hpux -is

this will boot you into single user mode. Once you are in, look around to see big files, like core or any other file. Remove them. then reboot again and let the server come up normally without interruptions.

[Sean Kuruvilla]

Also at this time how can I re-boot the server? If I can't log into the server.

[Sean Kuruvilla]

This is our test box and we are running HPUX 11.0.b. It is also running oracle on the server. I need to know how I can reboot this server, since I can't log into the server with my root user account? If someone can help me that would be great! I am not a UNIX Expert. I am a newbie to this world.

[Fabian Briseño · Accepted solution]

Hello sean.

You will need to rebbot the machine manually that is pressing the power button and thus shutting down the machine.

turn it on again and wait for a message that says "press any key whitin 10 seconds to interrupt the boot process"

interrupt it, and give the following command
BO PRI
that will display
"interect with ISL"
respond yes
and give this command
hpux -is

that will leave you in single user mode

here only / filesystem is mounted

you can give a mount /usr

and that will let you use all the commands, next try findig files you can move from / to for example /var

hope this helps

[Marvin Strong]

If you can't login, you can try to login at the console. If that doesn't work you can try to delete stuff with ftp, assuming root can ftp to the box I have done this in the past. Of course with ftp its a bit hard to find large files ;p

Of course if you are using /dev/root, then you need to reboot anyway as stated as you are in LVM maintenance mode.

[Sean Kuruvilla]

Thank you I have done that and now the server is in single usr mode. Due to the reason no one is able to log into the server outside of the console. I need to enable it so user can access the HPUX server outside of the console. Can someone help me with that.

[DCE]

By definition only one useer can log in in single user mode. Networking is disabled, and only basic functionality is available

While you are logged in, look in /, and /dev for files that should not be there

you can do this with the ls -l command

you can also look for large files with the find command

find / -size +

to find suspect large files

to find large files that could be causing your problem

[Sean Kuruvilla]

Thank you very much for all your help, with your help I was able to bring the server back up. I would of never been ale to do that if it wasn't for the support I received from all of you. Again thank you very much.