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hadrian
Level 2
4 years ago

Unable to connect to the database (Status 252) + 2505

Hello Veritas community, 

We're running a master server + media server (Linux versions) on NetBackup 8.1. NetBackup processes started failing with database connection errors. Our first step in trying to resolve this was to stop the NetBackup processes and restart them. Unfortunately, that did not resolve our issue. I have been digging through posts and found the common semaphore issue, but the values set seem to be ok (posted below). I'm also adding a few error logs from /var/log/messages. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. 

Thank you

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100023842
Semaphore settings output:
sysctl -a | grep kernel.sem
kernel.sem = 400 307200 128 1024
kernel.sem_next_id = -1

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/var/log/messages

Apr 8 07:28:12 <master_hostname> bash: Error receiving command message: No data to receive from socket.

# THIS BLOCK MAY BE RELEVANT (I replaced our actual hostname with master_hostname)
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): Opening dbspace 'EMM_DATA' in file '/usr/openv/db/data/EMM_DATA.db' for database 'NBDB'
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): Opening dbspace 'EMM_INDEX' in file '/usr/openv/db/data/EMM_INDEX.db' for database 'NBDB'
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): Opening dbspace 'DBM_DATA' in file '/usr/openv/db/data/DBM_DATA.db' for database 'NBDB'
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): Opening dbspace 'DBM_INDEX' in file '/usr/openv/db/data/DBM_INDEX.db' for database 'NBDB'
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): Opening dbspace 'DARS_DATA' in file '/usr/openv/db/data/DARS_DATA.db' for database 'NBDB'
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): Opening dbspace 'DARS_INDEX' in file '/usr/openv/db/data/DARS_INDEX.db' for database 'NBDB'
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): Opening dbspace 'JOBD_DATA' in file '/usr/openv/db/data/JOBD_DATA.db' for database 'NBDB'
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): Opening dbspace 'SLP_DATA' in file '/usr/openv/db/data/SLP_DATA.db' for database 'NBDB'
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): Opening dbspace 'SLP_INDEX' in file '/usr/openv/db/data/SLP_INDEX.db' for database 'NBDB'
Apr 7 09:25:45 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nb_<master_hostname>): This database is licensed for use with:
Apr 7 09:29:33 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nbappdb): Starting database "NBAPPDB" (/opt/NBUAppliance/db/data/NBAPPDB.db) at Wed Apr 07 2021 09:29
Apr 7 09:29:34 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nbappdb): This database is licensed for use with:
Apr 7 10:15:30 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nbazdb): Starting database "NBAZDB" (/usr/openv/db/staging/NBAZDB.db) at Wed Apr 07 2021 10:15
Apr 7 10:15:33 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nbdb): Starting database "NBDB" (/usr/openv/db/staging/NBDB.db) at Wed Apr 07 2021 10:15
Apr 7 10:15:33 <master_hostname> SQLAnywhere(nbdb): Opening dbspace 'EMM_DATA' in file '/usr/openv/db/staging/EMM_DATA.db' for database 'NBDB'
# SAME BLOCK STARTS OVER AT THIS PIONT

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  • pats_729's avatar
    pats_729
    Level 6
    4 years ago

    hadrian 

    This sounds the NetBackup Database (NBDB) is down.

    Elevate to root prompt on the appliance and try running commands

    /usr/openv/db/bin/nbdb_ping

    Try to start NBDB alone

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbdbms_start_stop start

    Additonally post /usr/openv/var/global/server.log from master server.

    Also check if Private Branch Exchange Service is running

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpps -x

    • jnardello's avatar
      jnardello
      Moderator
      4 years ago

      If this is an appliance and you're already getting failures then you're hurting absolutely nothing by rebooting - it's already broken remember ? =)

      Just for kicks you can try cycling the NBU processes first (~5 minutes) down and up to see if it restarts cleanly, but if not a reboot should be your next step - kick it, go spend 30-45 minutes at lunch, and it'll probably be happy by the time you come back. 

  • StoneRam-Simon's avatar
    StoneRam-Simon
    Level 6
    4 years ago

    What do you get if you just run "bperror"

    The var/log/messages doesn't show anything useful, but check that you haven't run out of disk space, NetBackup will shutdown the database to protect itself if the volume is getting low on space.

     

    • hadrian's avatar
      hadrian
      Level 2
      4 years ago

      Thank you StoneRam-Simon 

      maintenance-!> bperror
      Error occurred during initialization, check master configuration file

      Space looks good as far as I can tell:

      maintenance-!> df -hl
      Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
      /dev/mapper/system-root 90G 38G 48G 45% /
      devtmpfs 63G 0 63G 0% /dev
      tmpfs 63G 0 63G 0% /dev/shm
      tmpfs 63G 9.8G 54G 16% /run
      tmpfs 63G 0 63G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
      /dev/sdb2 198M 46M 143M 25% /boot
      /dev/mapper/system-inst 50G 9.0G 38G 20% /inst
      /dev/mapper/system-rep 241G 14G 215G 6% /repository
      /dev/mapper/system-log 183G 35G 140G 20% /log
      tmpfs 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /dev/vx
      tmpfs 13G 0 13G 0% /run/user/888
      /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/advol 2.0T 3.9G 2.0T 1% /advanceddisk/dp1/advol
      /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/catvol 1.5T 952G 544G 64% /cat
      /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/pdcatvol 118G 4.5G 113G 4% /msdp/cat
      /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/pdvol 36T 4.6T 31T 13% /msdp/data/dp1/pdvol
      /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/cfgvol 100G 42G 58G 43% /config
      /dev/vx/dsk/nbuapp/1pdvol 15G 13G 1.6G 90% /msdp/data/dp1/1pdvol
      tmpfs 13G 0 13G 0% /run/user/0
      maintenance-!>