Ignite error!

[Amit Manna_6]

HI ,
I am getting following error while doing a Ignite backup.


The input line number is 310.
The source line number is 1.
make_medialif: ERROR: Cannot tar and gzip script files; possibly insufficient disk space in /var/tmp/make_medialif19710.
ERROR: System Error, /opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif failed creating boot LIF
file.
ERROR: Failed to generate LIF on tape .


======= 03/07/06 09:09:19 GMT make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully



Any suggestions?

[Shaikh Imran]

hi,

the /var filesystem is somehow being used to
it's maximum capacity.
please check the /var filesystem.

The above error is due to insufficient space in /var filesystem.
This a failure to write /var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery.

Regards,

[Bharat Katkar]

HI Amit,

/var filesystem is full.

See if you have lot's of crash dumps in /var/adm/crash. If so try deleting them in case not required. Other wise try trimming log files.

Imran, after long time, Where r u man? :)

Regards,

[SUDHEER M S]

Hi,

Please have a look at the following points.
1) As you may aware ignite creats an archive file and then writes to the tape.
Check your /var filesystem and make sure you have a min of 30-50MB.
If the fs is with less space.You can zip or del old config files "files" under the /var/opt/ignite/recovery/
#find /var -xdev -size +100000 -exec ll {} \; to find out the files.
#check /var/adm/crash for any crash files (If same fs).
2) You may try a dd
#dd if=/etc/issue of=/dev/rmt/0mn and try write to the tape.
3) LIF write problem may cause because of media problem too. Try changing too.

Regards,
MS

[Mark Greene_1]

As stated above, /var is full. Look in directories /var/tmp, /var/spool/cron/tmp, /var/spool/locks, /var/spool/mqueue, and /var/spool/sw for large file or a very large amount of old files.

Also check in /var/adm/syslog (or where ever syslog.conf has your system messages going) to see how large the syslog is and if it's rotating properly, and look in /var/adm/cron to see how large the cron log is getting too.

mark

[Amit Manna_6]

HI,

dd if=/etc/issue of=/dev/rmt/0mn
2+1 records in
2+1 records out

Also there is more than 100mb space free in /var.

So not sure why its failing

[SUDHEER M S]

Good, Fire ignite again and see the status.
If fails can you please upload the

/var/opt/ignite/recovery/latest/recovery.log

Regards
MS

[Mark Greene_1]

>Also there is more than 100mb space free in /var.

That may not be enough. Are there residual file in /var/tmp/ign_configure or in /var/opt/ignite/recovery/[date] where [date] is from a previous ignite? The flist file in that directory can be very large, depending on the number of files being backed-up. The files /var/opt/ignite/recovery/makerec.last and arch.include can also be several MB each.

mark

[Ninad_1]

Amit,

This may be a silly suggestion - but from the discussion uptill now it seems that you have been checking the free space in /var - its possible that /var/tmp is a separate filesystem and its getting full ??

Regs,
Ninad

[Amit Manna_6]

HI,
Please find the recovery log attached.

[Amit Manna_6]

Hi.
The recovery log is attached.

[SUDHEER M S]

Is this ignite on this server was running previously. If itâ s a repeating problem I suggest you see the points 3 and 4. Have a look at the following points. Trust will help you.

1) Major reason seems to be less free space in /var FS
2) I suggest you change the media.
3) There is a known issue. Which is fixed by PHSS_27406 patch?
4) swlist -l fileset |grep Ignite and see you have new versions of ignite (B.3.7.96 is one I am using)

Cheers
MS

[Amit Manna_6]

Hi,
I am getting followin eror now

* Archiving contents of brahms via tar image to local device/dev/rmt/0mn.
Program Terminated. SIGHUP received. Exiting.

Please suggest.

[Carlos Roberto Schimidt]

I see another your post about problem with filesystem /var:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=996951

Is the same server?

If is the same server, try to solve main problems about your system.

You assigned points to 83 of 504 responses for your questions. Only 16%.

I think is better you always assign points to your questions.

Schimidt

[Peter Godron]

Amit,
although, annoyingly, no solution was identified in :
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=981837
I would suggest clean the tape drive and try again.

Did you run your command from the command line on a terminal session and then log out? That would send a SIGHUP. Or did your session time out?