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43P Upgrade to AIX 4.3.3 failing

43P Upgrade to AIX 4.3.3 failing

Post by Timothy L Mye » Thu, 16 May 2002 07:35:50



I'm attempting to upgrade a 43P to AIX 4.3.3 using a complete
overwrite.  The upgrade is failing, with my machine* during the
upgrade.  The last thing I see on my screen is:

All filesets installed.
Integration complete
94% tasks completed

It takes about 30-40 minutes to get to this point, and never moves
again.

Resetting the machine at this point doesn't work; the machine won't
boot.  It hangs with the  RS/6000 graphical logo on the monitor.
There is no LCD digital display on this machine to give handy status
messages about where it's stopping in the boot process.

I tried upgrading the firmware to version 1.11.  Although this didn't
fix the problem.

When I boot in maintenance mode I'm able to import the root filesystem
and see all the usual files I'd expect to see on hdisk1.  I also tried
setting the bootlist, in case that was set incorrectly, and laying
down a new bosboot on hdisk1.

Does anyone have ideas of what I should try next?

 
 
 
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43P Upgrade to AIX 4.3.3 failing

Post by Urban A. Haa » Fri, 17 May 2002 00:38:35




Quote:> I'm attempting to upgrade a 43P to AIX 4.3.3 using a complete
> overwrite.  The upgrade is failing, with my machine* during the
> upgrade.  The last thing I see on my screen is:

> All filesets installed.
> Integration complete
> 94% tasks completed

> It takes about 30-40 minutes to get to this point, and never moves
> again.

> Resetting the machine at this point doesn't work; the machine won't
> boot.  It hangs with the  RS/6000 graphical logo on the monitor.
> There is no LCD digital display on this machine to give handy status
> messages about where it's stopping in the boot process.

> I tried upgrading the firmware to version 1.11.  Although this didn't
> fix the problem.

> When I boot in maintenance mode I'm able to import the root filesystem
> and see all the usual files I'd expect to see on hdisk1.  I also tried
> setting the bootlist, in case that was set incorrectly, and laying
> down a new bosboot on hdisk1.

> Does anyone have ideas of what I should try next?

In maintenance mode, you could try running bosboot -ad hdisk0.

The boot image is created after the point that your system hung.

If this doesn't work, your probably going to have to reload.

Urban

 
 
 
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1. NFS mount from AIX 4.2 to SunOS 5.1 fails after upgrade

Greetings,
        One of my customers just upgraded an RS/6000 43P from
AIX 4.1 to 4.2.1.  Before the upgrade he was able to NFS mount
a filesystem on a Sparc 1+ (yeah, an oldy) running SunOS 5.1.  As
near has he can tell (he did a preservation upgrade on the AIX)
he has not changed any TCP/IP configuration on either side.

Here is what he receives on the AIX side:


mount: 1831-008 giving up on:
mrd2100-gw:/soma
vmount: There is an input or output error.
NFS getattr failed for server mrd2100-gw: error 7 (RPC: Authentication
error)

While on the Sun side he receives on the console:

NFS request from unprivileged port.
nfs_server: weak authentication

The /etc/filesystems entry on the AIX side is:

/mrd2100-gw/soma:
        dev             = "/soma"
        vfs             = nfs
        nodename        = mrd2100-gw
        mount           = false
        options         = fg,hard,intr
        account         = false

while on the Sun side it's filesystem is being shared with a
/etc/dfs/dfstab entry of:

share -F nfs -orw=omronaix,root=omronaix /soma

He has tried changing parameters like hard/soft, intr/nointr, secure
vers=, proto=, but none of these has changed the symptom.

I went looking through IBMLink but didn't find any PTF about this
specifically.  We are going to pull down U450645 and see if that
helps, because it is pointed to by about a dozen APARs, but that is
just a blind guess.  We also found out that bos.net.tcp.client is
at 4.2.1.2, but bos.net.nfs.client is at 4.2.1.1, and it probably
should be at 4.2.1.2 also.  

I also am going to try Sun patch 100884-27, the SunOS 5.1 NFS jumbo
patch, although I am not sure this will really help.  It hasn't been
updated since 1994.

Do any of you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

John Schneider

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