make_recovery error

[Mike Seerden]

I have been trying to get a make_recovery tape going on a K420 and a K570 both running 10.20. I loaded ignite and patched it to be current. Both systems give me this error. Any idea?. I have searched the site for answers and found none. Can't find any reference to that error.

make_recovery(486): Call to system failed. errno=0

[Daniel Correa]

I had the same type of error. what it turned out to be was a failure when trying to backup a volume group. I think make recovery does a vgcfgbackup during it's setup. With the -v option of make_recovery you can watch some of the steps being performed. Mine failed at backing up vg03. When I did a vgcfgbackup of vg03 I saw that there was an error "lvmtab out of sync with running kernel".

[Patrick Wessel · Accepted solution]

Mike,

take a look into /var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log1 there should be some more data why the make_recovery failed.
There is a good posibility that you deal with a LVM problem