Orace Linux 6 - SOSREPORT Generation Failed With Error "IOError: [Errno 2] No Such File Or Directory" (Doc ID 2578417.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 06, 2019

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Symptoms

Generating a sosreport failed with following errors on Oracle Linux 6 server.

[root@<localhost>~]# sosreport

Setting up archive ...
Setting up plugins ...
Running plugins. Please wait ...
.....
 Running 72/74: x11... 
 Running 73/74: xfs... 
 Running 74/74: yum... 
Creating compressed archive...
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/sbin/sosreport", line 25, in 
  main(sys.argv[1:])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sos/sosreport.py", line 1520, in main
  sos.execute()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sos/sosreport.py", line 1499, in execute
  return self.final_work()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sos/sosreport.py", line 1411, in final_work
  checksum = self._create_checksum(archive, hash_name)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sos/sosreport.py", line 1349, in _create_checksum
  archive_fp = open(archive, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/sos._WBrAP/sosreport-localhost.tar.xz'


Tar file is created but not .xz compressed.

[root@<localhost>]# pwd
/tmp/sos._WBrAP
[root@<localhost>]# ls -l
total 2134952
-rw------- 1 root root 2183403520 Jun 12 13:39 sosreport-localhost-20190612133120.tar
-rw------- 1 root root 290 Jun 12 13:38 tmpFoixZs
-rw------- 1 root root 1430112 Jun 12 13:38 tmpOrDeqv
-rw------- 1 root root 786415 Jun 12 13:44 tmpWMyCSI
-rw------- 1 root root 556329 Jun 12 13:38 tmpzTfC1m 

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