Expire Inventory and PREPARE hanging

[vkravindran]

Hi,

I have a peculiar problem with 2 of our TSM servers, which are clustered, and defined as library clients to each other.

On both of them, when the expire inventory command runs, the command hangs, and I can't cancel it. When this happens, I am not able to issue any of the 'q drm' or select from DRMEDIA commands. It just hangs. The only way out is to restart TSM.

The PREPARE command hangs too.

I am also not able to delete volhist records. The command hangs.

I see lot of "ANR4513E A database lock conflict was encountered in
processing sequential volume history information.
(SESSION: 8829)"

errors in the actlog, but it doesn't tell me what volume.

When I restart TSM, the DRM commands runs fine, until I run expiration or PREPARE or VOLHIST commands.

This is causing problems for the people to query and checkout DRM tapes.

I have opened up a Sev 1 ticket with IBM, but so far no help.

I tried to delete the cross-server definitions and the cross-library definitions, but that does not help.

Has anyone come across this situation in the past?

This is the environment:

SUN T-2000
Solaris 10 OS
TSM server 5.4.2.0

DB and log sizes are good. BUFPOOL size is good. IBM verified that.
Thanks in advance
Rav

 

[LED888]

If we are receiving "ANR4513E A database lock conflict..." .
What other database activity are going on at the time when we issue the delete volhist?
Were there any ANR9999D message or any I/O error message?

Paste the actlog starting from when we issue the delete volhist.

Good Luck,
Sias