RE: ontape -r quitting with code -1 errno 22
What are your log files saying? Do you have truss under Digital Unix,
if so then truss and find out what system call is being 22'd. My
starter for ten would shmadd, or brk, both are SHM problems and
are probably down to your kernel configuration
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Bettin [mailto:andy@pneu.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 01:46
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: ontape -r quitting with code -1 errno 22
>
>
> Hi,
>
> i try to do a restore using ontape -r and following error occurs:
>
> [--------SNIPPED--------]
> Archive Information
>
> INFORMIX-OnLine Copyright(C) 1986-1995 Informix Software, Inc.
> Initialization Time 04/29/1997 14:40:57
> System Page Size 2048
> Version 6
> Invalid archive tape
> 0: d4 11 10 0 fc 63 b9 e5 0 0 0 10 18 0 e4 7
> T...|c9e......d.
> Physical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code -1
> errno 22
>
> Program over.
> [---------SNAPPED--------]
>
> System is Digital/Tru64 Unix 4.0f with IDS 7.31.FC4A -Appl.: SAP/r3.
> Informix Error -1 : not owner
> System Error 22 : #define EINVAL 22 /* Invalid
> argument */
>
> Tapedev: (Tape is a DLT 35/70 GB)
>
> Onconfig, Section TapeDevices
> [--------SNIPPED--------]
> # System Archive Tape Device
> TAPEDEV /dev/rmt1h # Tape device path
> TAPEBLK 256 # Tape block size (Kbytes)
> TAPESIZE 66060288 # Maximum amount of data to put on
> tape (Kbytes)>
> # Log Archive Tape Device
> LTAPEDEV /dev/rmt1h # Log tape device path
> LTAPEBLK 256 # Log tape block size (Kbytes)
> LTAPESIZE 66060288 # Max amount of data to put on log
> tape (Kbytes)
> [---------SNAPPED--------]>
> Filesystem-Permissions for restore:
> The volumes that will be restored are LVM-Volumes 2 GB with
> group=informix, user=informix and mode=0660. We use user informix for
> backup and restore. The path to the volumes are linked. Informix can
> access the path.
>
> Thanks for any hints or suggestions!
>
> Bye
> Andreas Bettin
> Unix/Informix Admin
> Pneuhage Germany
>
>
Hi, log files say's nothing (really nothing). Error 22 is in error.h = Invalid Argument. I check the kernel shm config. "Watson, Paul" <Paul.Watson@aggregate.com> > > What are your log files saying? Do you have truss under Digital Unix, > if so then truss and find out what system call is being 22'd. My > starter for ten would shmadd, or brk, both are SHM problems and > are probably down to your kernel configuration > > Paul Watson #