George,

We had a big issue with this problem a while back with 6.1.1 on Solaris.  As
someone stated, it is an indication of contention with the media database
from bootstrap or nsrim -MX.  We greatly reduced the number of times this
problem was encountered (from several times a day to once a month) by
implementing a cron job to keep nsrim from running as often.  The cron job
touches the temp file which determines when nsrim will be run... if the date
of this file is less than 24 hours old, nsrim will skip.  Here are the cron
entries that will reduce nsrim to one run per week at 8 am:

# Adding entry to provide work around for media database contention
#
3 8 * * 0,1,3-6 touch /nsr/mm/nsrim.prv
3 20 * * 0,2-6 touch /nsr/mm/nsrim.prv

We had an escalation open on this (LGTpa37258)and a hot fix was developed
but we did not implement it since we had good results with the work around.
The fix is also in NW 7 and possibly 6.1.2.


~JohnL

Senior Systems Engineer
Dell Computers

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