IGNITE gzip error 141

[Russ Hancock_1]

Using the make_sys_image command, I get the following error.

.....................
* Archiving contents of nodeXX via tar to
172.16.X.XX:/archive/B.11.00/nodeXX.gz.
Error 0
cat: Cannot write to output.
ERROR: The gzip command failed (exit status 141)
* Cleanup: Do Not interrupt, restoring files, kernel, and transition link
s.

This has worked in the past when the archive file was around 1.8Gb the archive now created exceeds 2.1Gb before the crash....

Any ideas?
Cheers
Russ

[T G Manikandan]

If that is the case then you need to look at two things

1.check whether your file system is large files enabled which supports more than 2Gb file size.

2.Also make sure your gzip version is 1.2.4 or greater than that.

I think it is crossing the 2GB limit.

Thanks

[Alex Glennie]

Just one thing to add ... by default make_sys_image uses /usr/contrib/bin/gzip
so copy over the new gzip from /opt/gzip/bin/gzip if needbe

[Russ Hancock_1]

In response to your suggestions, the two gzip verions I have installed are as below,
# /usr/local/bin/gzip -V
gzip 1.3.3
(2002-03-08)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly

# /usr/contrib/bin/gzip -V
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H

And I guess the 2Gb limit is a show stopper, unless you know a way to enable large files on the root directory??