Re: /usr/opt/freeware causes AIX433-51 migration to fail

From: Jeff Barratt-Mccartney (jbarratt_at_COMPSAT.COM)
Date: 06/27/03

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    Date:         Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:35:58 GMT
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    ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) I am getting very good at discovering what will cause a 433-51/52
    migration to hang. Here is what I have encountered:

    1. hd5(blv) must be at least 12MB. All PPs for hd5 MUST be physcially
    placed on the outer edge.in other words, if rootvg has 8MB PPs, hd5 must
    be 2 PPs both on the outer edge. You can create a new hd5 that satisfies
    the requirements with: mklv -t boot -ae -y hd5 rootvg 2 hdisk0 and then
    a bosboot -ad /dev/hdisk0
    2. Attempting to migrate with a mirrored rootvg wil cause the migration
    to hang at 95%
    3. /etc/group must not contain any lines >2048 characters. this will
    cause the migration to error on nearly every package to be installed with
    sysck errros complaining about 'groupname' is not a know groupname for
    'packagename'. in other words make sure that grpck -n ALL does not error,
    and verify that you can vi /etc/group
    4. broken lpp links can cause the migration to fail. run lppchks
    first(-v -l -c)
    5. have a good mksysb. you may very well need it

    On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:37:41 +0200 "Green, Simon" wrote:

    > I tried to migrate a CWS yesterday, an F50, from AIX433-08 & PSSP32 to
    > AIX51-04 and PSSP35.
    >
    > Shortly after the migration kicked off, it failed, reporting problems with
    > rpm.rte. After poking around for a bit we abandoned the migration and
    > restored from a mksysb.
    >
    > The problem seems to have been the existence in the 433 system of
    > /usr/opt/freeware, which as far as I can tell contains all the
    > components of
    > rpm.rte, but rpm.rte is not installed, (according to lslpp).
    >
    > As far as I'm aware, nobody has ever fooled with the AIX Toolbox for Linux
    > on this system. I've got the same situation on two other servers in this
    > cluster.
    >
    > Can anyone suggest how and why these files might have gotten there?
    >
    > Simon Green
    > Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
    >
    > AIX-L Archive at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2
    > AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/
    >
    > N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated.
    >

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