From: Shaun.Racine@intier.com
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 11:03:31 EST
Hi Managers,
Problem resolved by almost unanimous response, using command;
fixfdmn
I could not find this on the boot CD, but I was able to mount the root
partition from HSG and copy to /tmp within boot shell and umount and run
from there.
Many thanks to all responders ;
BL Venkatesh
Dr Thomas Blinn
Thomas Sjolshagen
Bob Harris
Lawrie Smith
Bryan LaVelle
Paul Crittenden
John L. Lanier
Martin Roende Andersen
Robert Collins
Derek Haining
Best regards,
Shaun
All responses follow ;
Original question
===============
Hi Managers,
V5.1A pk 0001
I am attempting to correct fileset corruption on a LSM / AdvFS root_domain.
I have booted from the Unix CD, accessed the shell prompt.
Started LSM (after a lot of tries!)
Linked in AdvFS root_domain to /etc/fdmns
Verify does not fix the problem.
Where do I go from here?
Much obliged,
Shaun Racine
Here is the output from verify;
# /sbin/advfs/verify -f -d root_domain
verify: error [13] posting event: sys.unix.fs.advfs.fset.backup.lock
+++ Domain verification +++
Domain Id 3d7b53bb.0009d2b0
Checking disks ...
Checking storage allocated on disk /dev/vol/rootdg/rootvol
Checking mcell list ...
Checking that all in-use mcells are attached to a file's metadata mcell
chain...
Checking tag directories ...
+++ Fileset verification +++
+++++ Fileset root +++++
Checking frag file headers ...
Loop found in list of free frags on page 1040 of the frags file.
Frags metadata file is corrupted!
Fileset is corrupted! Attempts to use this fileset may result in
system crashes or user data loss!
verify: error [13] posting event: sys.unix.fs.advfs.fset.backup.unlock
#
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"Venkatesh, BL"
<venkatesh.bl@> To: <Shaun.Racine@intier.com>
cc:
05/11/2004 11:41 Subject: RE: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
did u try 'salvage' to recover the files?
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"Dr
Thomas.Blinn@" To: Shaun.Racine@intier.com
<tpb cc:
Subject: Re: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
05/11/2004 12:47
You probably will need to recreate the domain and fileset and
restore it from backup. It would be interesting to know if
the cause of the failure was hardware or software, since the
binary error log is in the /var hierarchy which may be intact,
and the kernel message log is there also, you might be able to
find some useful data if you can get to those files. If your
root disk is bad, restoring the file systems onto it might be
a bad idea.
Tom
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"Sjolshagen,
Thomas (Tru64 To: <Shaun.Racine@intier.com>
UNIX Eng.)" cc:
<thomas.sjolshag Subject: Re: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
en@>
05/11/2004 13:02
Please respond
to "Sjolshagen,
Thomas (Tru64
UNIX Eng.)"
Try fixfdmn.
If that doesn't work you can either try "salvage" (to save any
customizations onto another device) and/or it's - unfortunately - time
to dig out the backup tapes...
// Thomas
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Bob Harris UBPG
<harris@> To: Shaun.Racine@intier.com
cc:
05/11/2004 13:26 Subject: Re: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
man fixfdmn
>
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"Smith, Lawrie"
<Lawrie.Smith@> To: Shaun.Racine@intier.com
cc:
05/11/2004 13:20 Subject: RE: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
Have you tried /sbin/advfs/fixfdmn?
Kind regards
Lawrie Smith
Tru64 UNIX Systems Manager
Capita Technical Services
West Malling
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"LaVelle, Bryan"
<bryan.lavelle@> To: <Shaun.Racine@intier.com>
cc:
05/11/2004 13:34 Subject: RE: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
Have you tried fixfdmn? See the man page. There is also a utility called
salvage available from the HP support center, but it's a last ditch effort
and you need lots of extra disk space to use it.
Hope you have taken a 0 level vdump some time recently...
Regards,
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Paul Crittenden
<crittend@> To: Shaun.Racine@intier.com
cc:
05/11/2004 14:09 Subject: Re: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
YOu could try fixfdmn.
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"John L. Lanier"
<jllanier@> To: <Shaun.Racine@intier.com>
cc:
05/11/2004 14:44 Subject: RE: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
Hello,
I would recommend "fixfdmn" if you haven't tried this already.
#/sbin/advfs/fixfdmn root_domain
If this doesn't work, not much else but to recreate the filesystem.
Regards,
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"Martin Roende
Andersen" To: <Shaun.Racine@intier.com>
<martin.roende@> cc:
Subject: SV: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
07/11/2004 21:22
Other interesting tools are ..
/sbin/advfs/fixfdmn
/sbin/advfs/salvage ( last resort , read man page )
And finally force a read only mount and take a backup if you dont have any,
check if it is a faulty disk/controller.
Check up OS patch level as well...
Regards Martin R. Andersen
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"Collins, Robert
(HPS Escalation To: <Shaun.Racine@intier.com>
Team)" cc:
<robert.r.collin Subject: RE: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
s@>
08/11/2004 21:19
Shaun,
Try either fixfdmn or if all else failes you can run salvage but
you will need storage at least as big as the problem domain to do this.
Both utiles can be found in the /sbin/advfs directory.
Good Luck,
Bob
Bob Collins
Hewlett Packard
Global Solutions Engineering
robert.r.collins@hp.com
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Derek Haining
<Derek.Haining@> To: "'Shaun.Racine@intier.com'" <Shaun.Racine@intier.com>
cc:
10/11/2004 06:30 Subject: RE: verify AdvFS domain - fileset is corrupted
Shaun,
I suggest examining the domain using the "fixfdmn" utility. Check the man
page for the exact syntax.
My personal suggestion is to run fixfdmn with the "-n" flag at first.
(This
should be the "no write" option.) Then check the log file that fixfdmn
wrote
to see what kinds of errors it reported finding. If I recall correctly,
fixfdmn
should tell you if it thinks it cannot fix a certain problem.
Differences between fixfdmn and verify are:
verify does a "mount" of the domain/fileset in order to check it. Thus if
there
is corruption that causes the kernel a problem, you cannot fix it with
verify.
fixfdmn does not do an AdvFS mount of the domain. Instead it opens each of
the
volumes of the domain as block devices. It does all of its checks in user
mode,
so it cannot crash the system. In addition, it is able to fix some errors
that
the kernel cannot handle.
Good luck!
-Derek Haining
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