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The VOB storage directory was not found

Troubleshooting


Problem

This technote explains why attempts to access a VOB from IBM® Rational® ClearCase® Explorer on Microsoft® Windows® or attempts to start ClearCase on UNIX® or Linux® results in the error,The VOB storage directory was not found, and provides instructions to resolve the issue.

Symptom


Windows:

Attempts to access a VOB from ClearCase Explorer results in the following error:

Rational ClearCase Explorer

X    The VOB storage directory "<UNC path to .vbs>" was not found.


(screenshot)


An additional symptom of the same problem can also be seen from the ClearCase Administration Console.


Attempt to view the VOB Space or VOB Space History tab results in the following information pop-up:

ClearCase Admin Storage Space Control

i   The VOB storage directory '<local path to .vbs>' on the host
'<VOB Server host>', does not have a storage space cache.  Please
see the Job Scheduler to schedule jobs that collect storage space data.


(screenshot)





UNIX/Linux:

Attempts to start ClearCase results in the following error:

[root@localhost etc]# ./clearcase start
ClearCase daemons: albd_server
Mounting public VOBs...
The VOB storage directory "/opt/clearcase/vobstore/PROJECT.vbs" was not
found.
The VOB storage directory "/opt/clearcase/vobstore/NEWPROJ.vbs" was not
found.
The VOB storage directory
"/opt/clearcase/vobstore/ModelN_Project_pvob.vbs" was not found.
Trouble mounting public VOBs(32:1)

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

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