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pureScale installFixPack fails due to not enough space in root path "/"

Troubleshooting


Problem

pureScale installFixPack fails due to not enough space in root path "/"

Symptom

installFixPack fails at the first Task:

<skip some unless messages>
Execution of a rolling update task failed with an error
Refer to /tmp/installFixPack_InstallOnlyDB2.log.20447440 for more details

TASK #1 :
Installing DB2 database product binaries : Failure

Cause

You have not enough free space on root path "/".

Environment

AIX or Linux

Diagnosing The Problem

From install trace, you can see validateInstallPathOnSDProuct return code = 5827:

36959 |||||| 1 iGetFreeSpace 80 -DATA- , INT = 0
36960 |||||| 1 iGetFreeSpace 90 -DATA- , INT64 = 84174443
36961 |||||| 1 iGetFreeSpace 91 -DATA- , STRING = /
36962 |||||\ 1 iGetFreeSpace EXIT Wed Jan 13 10:16:42 2016 -- , INT = 0
36963 ||||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::validateInstallPathOnSDProuct 40 -DATA- , INT = 0
36964 ||||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::validateInstallPathOnSDProuct 50 -DATA- , INT64 = 6642888
36965 ||||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::validateInstallPathOnSDProuct 52 -DATA- , INT64 = 5215104
36966 ||||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::validateInstallPathOnSDProuct 54 -DATA- , INT64 = 5373292
36967 ||||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::validateInstallPathOnSDProuct 56 -DATA- , INT64 = 5590636
36968 ||||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::validateInstallPathOnSDProuct 57 -DATA- , INT64 = 190124 <<< --- free space of path "/"
36969 ||||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::validateInstallPathOnSDProuct 60 -DATA- , INT64 = 84174443
36970 ||||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::validateInstallPathOnSDProuct 60 -DATA- , INT64 = 84174443

...

37035 ||||\ 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::validateInstallPathOnSDProuct EXIT Wed Jan 13 10:16:42 2016 -- , INT = -1
37036 |||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::isValidNewFPLoc 80 -DATA- , INT = -1
37037 |||| 1 IValidatorInstallLocation::isValidNewFPLoc 81 -DATA- , INT = 5827

Resolving The Problem

Ensure you have at least 200M free space in path "/".

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21975626