G'day Mace,
Did you get anywhere with this problem? I have a couple of guests
that give me grief when they start -- they do not complete the IPL
properly and I have to access their console to "kick" them and then
they start. The one thing that is different about these guests is
that they are using the console in 3270 mode rather than 3215. They
seem to "hang" (and it's not an idle hang either, they appear to be
in some kind of loop) right at the point at which the kernel switches
the console into "console mode".
So I'm curious as whether we have the same problem. I was
contemplating just changing their consoles back to 3215 to work
around the issue, but I like the 3270 mode console and would like to
keep it...
FWIW, my problem children are CentOS 4.2 64-bit.
Cheers,
Vic Cross
On 28/03/2006, at 4:07am, Jim Bohnsack wrote:
Larry--My "guess" is that your linux guests do not have RUN set
ON. You could verify that by entering #CP Q SET from a linux guest
to which you are connected at a VM console (not putty). You should
be able to see, RUN ON in response to the query.
q set
MSG ON , WNG ON , EMSG TEXT, ACNT OFF, RUN ON
Jim
At 10:11 AM 3/27/2006, you wrote:
We have been having a problem with our linux guests on VM. We lose
connectivity through putty and have to shutdown using the signal
shutdown
command to the linux guest. IBM has found the problem and we need to
upgrade the kernel..I guess to a general...I know don't quit my
day job.
Anyway what I and others have noticed is that the guest doesn't
reboot(ipl)
until I logon to it through VM. The reason I say this is because
the guest
remains hung(through putty) but the minute I logon to it through
VM and the
messages begin to roll through we are then able to log into it
through
putty . Any thoughts??
thanks
Mace
Jim Bohnsack
Cornell Univ.
(607) 255-1760
