Ignite make_recovery hangs at list_expander process

[Jason_435]

I have an HPK360 system running HP-UX 10.20 (I know it's old, but application can't be upgraded right now) and Ignite version A.3.3.116. The make_recovery -A used to work fine, but now it seems to be hanging at the list_expander process. I don't see any errors in /var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log1 until I manually kill the process. I don't really have HP support for this older OS version so any help is appreciated!

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Jason,

Chances are that your /var filesystem is full, please check, if not, please check to see if you got any orfan processes, if you do kill them, if not possible you might have to reboot the server.

Regards,

jaime.

[Jason_435]

Thanks for the reply! /var does have some room but /tmp is full. Also, there are 2 NFS mounts that are hung. Is it possible those are causing a problem with the ignite backup?

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Jason,

the hung NFS mounts shouldn't have anything do to with ignite, even thought it's important to fix those small details, since ignite was working before, then should be either that /tmp was full or maybe zombie processes inside /var.

Regards,

Jaime.

[Bill Hassell]

'some' space inb /var is not enough and /tmp full is affecting a lot of things. Ignite is doing you a favor by insisting that you fix these conditions -- there are probably other problems like vi fails to work (/tmp full). /var needs a lot of free megs and there is no workaround. Also, reboot to fix the hung NFS junk. HP-UX (at 10.20) is totally intolerant of broken NFS mountpoints and Ignite is no exception.

[Jason_435]

Thanks to everyone for their help! I will take these suggestions!