Switching

Hi,

While commiting Ex-3200 switch i receive the following message

error: error copying files (/config/juniper.conf.3.gz->/var/db/config/juniper.co nf.4.gz): No such file or directory error: rotation of old files failed

Please guide

Hello,

I had the same issue with an EX-4200. You are missing db/config directories. Below are the commands to get this fixed.

Thanks,

MA

> start shell

%cd /config
%mkdir db
%cd db
%mkdir config

%cli
>edit
#commit

Thanks MA,

the said directories do exist already.

pls note while comitting following error msg appears

error: error copying files (/config/juniper.conf.3.gz->/var/db/config/juniper.co
nf.4.gz): No such file or directory
error: rotation of old files failed

> start shell
% cd /config
% mkdir db
mkdir: db: File exists
% mkdir config
mkdir: config: Permission denied
% cli
> edit
Entering configuration mode
Users currently editing the configuration:
  admin terminal p2 (pid 1099) on since 2009-01-19 20:03:47 UTC, idle 00:09:01
      [edit]

[edit]
# commit
error: error copying files (/config/juniper.conf.3.gz->/var/db/config/juniper.co
nf.4.gz): No such file or directory
error: rotation of old files failed

[edit]

Hello,

Lets  actually check the Unix shell for the directories. Also the reason you can't create the directory is because you are not logged in as root. (my bad!) . In your output yes you have the db directory but you may not have the config directory under db. When you tried to create it you did not get a message stating that it already exists instead you could not create because you are not logged in a root.

      >start shell user root

password: (You created as the root when configuring switch, not your user (admin) password unless the same)

      root@1C:RE:0% cd /config
      root@1C:RE:0% ls
.snap                   juniper.conf.gz         ssh_host_key.pub
db                      juniper.conf.md5        ssh_host_rsa_key
juniper.conf.1.gz       ssh_host_dsa_key        ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
juniper.conf.2.gz       ssh_host_dsa_key.pub    usage.db
juniper.conf.3.gz       ssh_host_key            vchassis

**** You should see the directory db ****

root@1C:RE:0% cd db
root@1C:RE:0% ls
commits         config          dcd.snmp_ix     scripts         snmp_engine.db

**** You should see the directory config ****

root@1C:RE:0% cd config
root@1C:RE:0% ls
juniper.conf.10.gz      juniper.conf.18.gz      juniper.conf.26.gz
juniper.conf.11.gz      juniper.conf.19.gz      juniper.conf.4.gz
juniper.conf.12.gz      juniper.conf.20.gz      juniper.conf.5.gz
juniper.conf.13.gz      juniper.conf.21.gz      juniper.conf.6.gz
juniper.conf.14.gz      juniper.conf.22.gz      juniper.conf.7.gz
juniper.conf.15.gz      juniper.conf.23.gz      juniper.conf.8.gz
juniper.conf.16.gz      juniper.conf.24.gz      juniper.conf.9.gz
juniper.conf.17.gz      juniper.conf.25.gz

**** You should see your juniper configurations of all commits previously done ****

Now if you are missing any of these files fallow the previous solution to create the directories logged in as root.

Thanks,

MA

Below mentioned is output checking Unix shell for the directories

admin@> start shell user root
root@% cd /config
root@% ls
.snap                   juniper.conf.3.gz       ssh_host_key.pub
config                  juniper.conf.gz         ssh_host_rsa_key
db                      rescue.conf.gz          ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
juniper.conf+.gz        ssh_host_dsa_key        usage.db
juniper.conf.1.gz       ssh_host_dsa_key.pub    vchassis
juniper.conf.2.gz       ssh_host_key
root@% cd db
root@% ls
commits config
root@% cd config
root@% ls
juniper.conf.4.gz       juniper.conf.5.gz
root@% cli
admin@> edit
Entering configuration mode

[edit]
admin@# commit
error: error copying files (/config/juniper.conf.3.gz->/var/db/config/juniper.co
nf.4.gz): No such file or directory
error: rotation of old files failed

[edit]
admin@#

Not sure if it helps, but in your output you cd to the db directory from inside the config directory - so you'll end up going directly to /config/db/config instead of via the /var/db/config symlink.  If the symlink is missing, this could be causing your error.

Try cd /var/db/config and then ls

Thanks alot M A it works now.

Thanks dfex

Hello,

Excellent!! Glad to hear that!

Thanks,

MA

Just a word to a the same error but different fix.

For me I ended up finding that the symbolic link was in place but the actual directory was gone.

So /config existed, but there was no /config/db directory. So to fix the issue I went into the shell, and did:

mkdir /config/db

mkdir /config/db/config

After that I went back in to commit the config and it all worked perfectly. Not sure how this could have possibly have happened, I had committed plenty of normal config changes to the switch previously but after having added a vlan to a port and successfully committed, I then went back and added another port to a vlan and got the error with the above stated fix.

By the way for the record, a single, non-stacked:

Model: ex4200-48t
JUNOS Base OS boot [11.2R1.2]

That did the trick for me too.  Found I was missing the directories.  Thanks for the info!