HP-UX 10. make_recovery error

[Ron Twiggs]

I receive this error message "/dev/tcvc: no such file or directory" Subsequent error is "#358: error while reading through the /etc/mnttab file."I am new to HP-UX and need to make a bootable recovery tape. I checked out the files listed in the manual and found that mnttab has this file listed but I can't remove the entry...it keeps coming back!
How should I proceed to make a bootable tape backup?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Ron,

Can you post your 'bdf' output and /etc/fstab?.
Looks like you have hiccup with one of the mount points where the lv device file got wiped out or something.

-Sri

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Looks like you ran out of space.

You need a certain amount of space on the /var filesystem to do an Ignite recovery.

bdf

Also, all disks in /etc/lvmtab must be working.

Attching a script to check that.

SEP

[John Dvorchak]

Pretty common error. Welcome to HPUX Administration. The error occured because of a corrupted /etc/mnttab file. All you have to do is to save the file, just to be safe, with :

mv /etc/mnttab /etc/mnttab.sav

Then recreate the file with mount:

mount -a

You can then verify that /etc/mnttab file is ok.

Good luck
John