SUMMARY: Problems after copying the root device

From: Harald Volz <info_at_bio.tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:53:19 +0200

No answer from the list, DEC-Service Germany had not idea too.
After playing around I found a hint: Booting from the internal (copied)
disk and opening dtfile in CDE in the root-directory (which was open by
default after the new installation) leads to a hanging dtfile, blocking
ls and df -commands. This didn't happen while booting from the original
disk. We concluded, that there must be a problem with CDE. We copied the
disks via vdump / vrestore now in single user mode (console) and the
problem has gone.
It seems, that vdump of the root-filesystem with CDE open (maybe in
combination with dtfile) leads to this problem.

regards,

harald




>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> at the moment I'm updating my machines from 3.2d to 4.0b
> I made a clean new installation on an external disk.
> After copying / and /usr via vdump / vrestore on the internal disk and
> changing fstab I'm booting from the internal disk.
> The machine comes up but I'm getting some errors in my syslog (see
> below) and can't shutdown the machine with init 0 or init s. After
> invoking init s, X-Windows goes down, but the console keeps black. Via a
> telnet session I monitored
> /sbin/sh /sbin/rc0.d/K35nfsmount stop
> hanging
>
> This happens also if I'm booting root from the internal disk and /usr
> from the external disk and after remaking the devices in /dev
>
> Any help ?
>
> regards,
> harald
>
> ::::::::::::::
> user.log
> ::::::::::::::
> Sep 25 12:22:53 gen1 syslog: libtt[610]: ttdt_Xt_input_handler():
> tttk_message_receive(): TT_ERR_NOMP^INo ttsession process is running,
> probably because tt_open() has not been called yet. If this code is
> returned from tt_open() it means ttsession could not be started, which
> generally means ToolTalk is not installed on this system.
>
> ::::::::::::::
> daemon.log
> ::::::::::::::
> Sep 25 12:22:52 gen1 os_mibs[405]: os_mibs WARNING esnmp_init.c line
> 899: recvfrom returned: No such file or directory
> Sep 25 12:22:52 gen1 os_mibs[405]: os_mibs WARNING esnmp_poll.c line
> 227: esnmp_poll: Could not process a packet
> Sep 25 12:22:52 gen1 os_mibs[405]: os_mibs WARNING os_mibs.c line 391:
> Restaring protocol: Lost connection with Master Agent (snmpd).
>
> ::::::::::::::
> /sbin/sh /sbin/rc0.d/K35nfsmount stop
>

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               Harald Volz
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Received on Tue Sep 29 1998 - 12:54:16 NZST

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