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- From: matt@giskard.austin.ibm.com (Matthew S. Cronk)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: mksysb now fails
- Message-ID: <4639@d75.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 14:07:57 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.195553.24130@agouron.com>
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- Originator: matt@giskard.austin.ibm.com
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- In article <1992Aug12.195553.24130@agouron.com>, kupec@agouron.com
- (John W. Kupec) writes:
- > [Aug 08 1992, 06:39:40]
- >
- > mkinsttape failed
- >
- > 0512-0016 mksysb: Attempt to create a bootable tape failed:
- > mkinsttape /dev/rmt0.1 failed with return code 5.
- >
- > Reading the mksysb script it looks like this is the step where the
- > bosinst image is written to tape.
-
- The bosinst image is created by the mkinsttape command, which is a shell
- script. The only exit code of 5 from that script is when the restore command
- fails as it attempts to extract some ODM stuff from an archive file.
- The command is trying to restore the ODM stuff into a directory called
- /tmp/stanzas. Perhaps that directory is not writable, or the archive file may
- be unavailable.
- You can run the mkinsttape command from the command line and look for errors.
- I would suggest editing /usr/sbin/mkinsttape and searching for the invocation of
- restore that is failing (there is only ine such instance). Remove the redirect
- of stderr to /dev/null and watch for the error messages from restore.
-