Wednesday, June 19, 2013

LONE-TAR Diagnostic Return Codes
Operating System Error Codes


Table 1. LONE-TAR Diagnostic Return Codes

Return Code

Description

0 Complete Success
1 Error in command usage
2 Miscellaneous error, not otherwise defined below
3 Error reading from the tape media. Clean heads, replace cartridge.
4 Error writing to the tape media. Clean heads, replace cartridge.
5 Error opening or accessing a file or device
6 Error while reading a file from the hard disk
7 Error while writing a file to the hard disk
8 Not enough memory available
9 Read/Write error in the Virtual Pipe (P option). Set variable TMPDIR
10 The header info of a file is bad. Backup is no good.
11 Backup interrupted. Someone probably hit the <DEL> key or ^C
12 Error seeking on floppy/tape device
13 Error while verifying data
14 Byte level compare error during Level 2 verification
15 Incomplete backup or restore. Some files were not backed up.
16 Error involving semaphore initialization. Run the ipcs command
17 Error involving shared memory. Run the ipcs command.
18 Error involving Double Buffering and split processes. Turn off -S
20 Licensing error - a valid license does not exist.
30 Error while writing to tape.
132 Illegal instruction in the binary, probably wrong version for machine or upgrade problem
136 Floating point exception occurred. Call for support.
137 Someone terminated program with a kill -9
139 Out of bounds memory fault - usually from corrupted media during decompression during restore or verify.
140 A bad system call was encountered. Kernel does not support it.
141 The Network Link failed. This is usually due to a problem with the tape drive on the remote node. It fails and then the network link is dropped.
142 An alarm signal terminated the program. Possibly from kill -14
143 Someone terminated the program with a kill or kill -15

 

Table 2. Operating System Error Codes

Error

Computer English

Description
2 No such file or directory End of backup media was reached
5 I/0 Error Hardware error writing or reading media
6 No such device or address End of the backup media was reached
13 Permission denied You do not have permission to open file or backup device. Make sure you are the root user.
14 Bad address End of the backup media was reached
16 Device busy Another program or instance of LONE-TAR is using the backup device
26 Text file busy Another program is using this file, thus it cannot be restored
28 No space on device End of backup media was reached
32 Broken pipe LONE-TAR: NET - broken network connection to remote.
Usually a hard read or write error on the remote system.