Can't start system after rename a lib64 file by mistake
Dear all, We have a zlinux machine, I rename a file under /lib64 by mistake like this: = #mv /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 /lib64/tls/libc.so.6.bak = And the system can not start after it, I'm a newbie to zlinux,anyone can give some solutions? Thanks a lot! The start log is below: = LOGON *** 00: z/VM Version 5 Release 2.0, Service Level 0801 (64-bit), 00: built on IBM Virtualization Technology 00: There is no logmsg data 00: FILES: NO RDR, 0001 PRT, NO PUN 00: RECONNECTED AT 16:29:47 ZST MONDAY 02/09/09 00: IPL 200 CLEAR 00: Booting default (ipl)... Linux version 2.6.5-7.276-s390x (ge...@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux )) #1 SMP Mon Jul 24 10:45:31 UTC 2006 We are running under VM (64 bit mode) On node 0 totalpages: 917504 DMA zone: 524288 pages, LIFO batch:31 Normal zone: 393216 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/rootvg/root selinux=0 TERM=dumb elevator=cfq BOOT _IMAGE=0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 65536 bytes) CKRM Initialization .. Initializing ClassTypetaskclass .. Initializing ClassTypesocketclass CKRM Initialization done Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Memory: 3596032k/3670016k available (3461k kernel code, 0k reserved, 1075k data, 116k init) Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Detected 2 CPU's Boot cpu address 0 cpu 0 phys_idx=0 vers=FF ident=08530F machine=2064 unused= cpu 1 phys_idx=1 vers=FF ident=08530F machine=2064 unused= Brought up 2 CPUs checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 1915k freed khelper: max 64 concurrent processes debug: Initialization complete resid is -1 name is io NULL CKRM .. create res clsobj for resouce ioclass taskclass par= NET: Registered protocol family 16 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 256Kbytes TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 3145728 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Initializing Cryptographic API RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32768K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 Channel measurement facility using basic format (autodetected) NET: Registered protocol family 1 resid is -1 name is cpu NULL CKRM .. create res clsobj for resouce cpuclass taskclass par=000 0
Advice on zLinux for a systems-administrator from the x86 world
Hello list, I work as a Linux systems administrator. Currently we have about 200 virtual (vmWare) and 40 physical linux servers. Most of these servers are used for WAS (Websphere appserver), a few for WPS (Websphere process server), and a few for other uses. My employer is condidering zLinux (on a z10 BC mainframe). I have no experience with mainframe, z/VM or zLinux. Can you describe how you use zLinux? What kind of software do you run on zLinux? how many zLinux instances per IFL, how much memory? What kind of workloads do you think realizes most economic benefits on zLinux? If you are familiar with other virtualization alternatives, can you compare zLinux on zVM with them? (for instance cost, performance, simplicity of administration, etc). Thanks, Erling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND REDUCES CARBON FOOTPRINT WITH RED HAT ON THE MAINFRAME
Ceruti, Gerard G wrote: Hi Anyone from Bank of New Zealand or Red Hat on the list who can share the experience ?. http://customers.press.redhat.com/category/geography/apac/ Regards Gerard Ceruti may the 'z' be with you Sure, I'll contact you off list. I do believe the BNZ guys lurk here, though. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Advice on zLinux for a systems-administrator from the x86 world
What are you doing March 1st - 6th? Start by going to SHARE in Austin TX. Go to http://www.share.org/Events/UpcomingConference/tabid/349/Default.aspx and look at the zVM and zLinux sessions. Tell the Boss that he will get a get return on his investment of sending you to SHARE. Also look at http://www.linuxvm.org at a resource. Good luck, you are making a good move. James Chaplin Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM zLinux Base Technologies, Inc Supporting the zSeries Platform Team Data Center Operations Branch Enterprise Data Center Operations Group Enterprise Data Management Engineering Division Office of Information and Technology Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Customs Border Protection (703) 921-6220 james.chap...@cbp.dhs.gov -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Erling Ringen Elvsrud Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 7:04 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Advice on zLinux for a systems-administrator from the x86 world Hello list, I work as a Linux systems administrator. Currently we have about 200 virtual (vmWare) and 40 physical linux servers. Most of these servers are used for WAS (Websphere appserver), a few for WPS (Websphere process server), and a few for other uses. My employer is condidering zLinux (on a z10 BC mainframe). I have no experience with mainframe, z/VM or zLinux. Can you describe how you use zLinux? What kind of software do you run on zLinux? how many zLinux instances per IFL, how much memory? What kind of workloads do you think realizes most economic benefits on zLinux? If you are familiar with other virtualization alternatives, can you compare zLinux on zVM with them? (for instance cost, performance, simplicity of administration, etc). Thanks, Erling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Can't start system after rename a lib64 file by mistake
wangfeng wrote: Dear all, We have a zlinux machine, I rename a file under /lib64 by mistake like this: = #mv /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 /lib64/tls/libc.so.6.bak = And the system can not start after it, I'm a newbie to zlinux,anyone can give some solutions? Thanks a lot! If under VM, attach the device to another virtual penguin and fix it there. I assume you can do same sort of thing with an LPAR. Else boot from install media and fix from there. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1...@coco.merseine.nu z1...@coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
pvmove hangs
Hello list! I try to move all logical volumes which reside on a minidisk (/dev/dasdd1) on DASD MOD9 to a minidisk (/dev/dasde1) on DASD MOD54. / and /boot reside on separate minidisks, the rest is LVM managed. I can reproduce the problem with a test system: zlinux:~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/dasdc1 879M 113M 767M 13% / udev 247M 108K 247M 1% /dev /dev/dasdb145M 13M 30M 31% /boot /dev/mapper/system-lvhome 492M 33M 460M 7% /home /dev/mapper/system-lvopt 656M 35M 622M 6% /opt /dev/mapper/system-lvtmp 368M 33M 336M 9% /tmp /dev/mapper/system-lvusr 1.2G 563M 606M 49% /usr /dev/mapper/system-lvvar 876M 81M 796M 10% /var zlinux:~ # pvscan PV /dev/dasdd1 VG system lvm2 [4.57 GB / 1.09 GB free] PV /dev/dasde1 VG system lvm2 [4.80 GB / 4.80 GB free] zlinux:~ # pvmove -v /dev/dasdd1 Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices Finding volume group system Archiving volume group system metadata (seqno 7). Creating logical volume pvmove0 Executing: /sbin/modprobe dm-mirror Moving 292 extents of logical volume system/lvusr Moving 219 extents of logical volume system/lvvar Moving 164 extents of logical volume system/lvopt Moving 123 extents of logical volume system/lvhome Moving 92 extents of logical volume system/lvtmp Found volume group system Found volume group system Found volume group system Found volume group system Found volume group system Updating volume group metadata Creating volume group backup /etc/lvm/backup/system (seqno 8). Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvusr (253:0) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvvar (253:1) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvopt (253:2) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvhome (253:3) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvtmp (253:4) Found volume group system Creating system-pvmove0 Loading system-pvmove0 table Resuming system-pvmove0 (253:5) system-pvmove0: device not found Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvusr table Resuming system-lvusr (253:0) Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvvar table Resuming system-lvvar (253:1) Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvopt table Resuming system-lvopt (253:2) Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvhome table Resuming system-lvhome (253:3) Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvtmp table Resuming system-lvtmp (253:4) Checking progress every 15 seconds /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 5.5% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 10.8% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 16.1% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 21.3% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 26.5% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 31.9% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 32.8% Updating volume group metadata Creating volume group backup /etc/lvm/backup/system (seqno 9). Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvusr (253:0) Suspending system-pvmove0 (253:5) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvvar (253:1) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvopt (253:2) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvhome (253:3) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvtmp (253:4) Found volume group system Found volume group system Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Resuming system-pvmove0 (253:5) (here the output stops) Now the system freezes slowly: sshd still gives a login-prompt, but if I enter the password no login is possible. Other open ssh sessions freeze are working until I enter a command. After a few minutes sshd doesn't answer any more. If I reboot the system it doesn't comes up, because the pvmove is restartet during the boot and the system freezes again. I can rescue the system with a few steps: IPL into CMS, detach a LVM managed minidisk, boot the guest which doesn't comes up (Give root password to login), edit the fstab with ed and delete all mounts with LVM volumes, attach the minidisk again and reboot. The system comes up and pvmove starts to work
Re: pvmove hangs
Sebastian Korte píše v Po 09. 02. 2009 v 15:20 +0100: Hello list! I try to move all logical volumes which reside on a minidisk (/dev/dasdd1) on DASD MOD9 to a minidisk (/dev/dasde1) on DASD MOD54. / and /boot reside on separate minidisks, the rest is LVM managed. IMHO it is not arch or distro specific. It looks exactly like as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=193330 and the LVM developers are keen for somebody with a reproducer. I can reproduce the problem with a test system: zlinux:~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/dasdc1 879M 113M 767M 13% / udev 247M 108K 247M 1% /dev /dev/dasdb145M 13M 30M 31% /boot /dev/mapper/system-lvhome 492M 33M 460M 7% /home /dev/mapper/system-lvopt 656M 35M 622M 6% /opt /dev/mapper/system-lvtmp 368M 33M 336M 9% /tmp /dev/mapper/system-lvusr 1.2G 563M 606M 49% /usr /dev/mapper/system-lvvar 876M 81M 796M 10% /var zlinux:~ # pvscan PV /dev/dasdd1 VG system lvm2 [4.57 GB / 1.09 GB free] PV /dev/dasde1 VG system lvm2 [4.80 GB / 4.80 GB free] zlinux:~ # pvmove -v /dev/dasdd1 Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices Finding volume group system Archiving volume group system metadata (seqno 7). Creating logical volume pvmove0 Executing: /sbin/modprobe dm-mirror Moving 292 extents of logical volume system/lvusr Moving 219 extents of logical volume system/lvvar Moving 164 extents of logical volume system/lvopt Moving 123 extents of logical volume system/lvhome Moving 92 extents of logical volume system/lvtmp Found volume group system Found volume group system Found volume group system Found volume group system Found volume group system Updating volume group metadata Creating volume group backup /etc/lvm/backup/system (seqno 8). Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvusr (253:0) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvvar (253:1) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvopt (253:2) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvhome (253:3) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvtmp (253:4) Found volume group system Creating system-pvmove0 Loading system-pvmove0 table Resuming system-pvmove0 (253:5) system-pvmove0: device not found Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvusr table Resuming system-lvusr (253:0) Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvvar table Resuming system-lvvar (253:1) Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvopt table Resuming system-lvopt (253:2) Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvhome table Resuming system-lvhome (253:3) Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Suppressed system-pvmove0 identical table reload. Loading system-lvtmp table Resuming system-lvtmp (253:4) Checking progress every 15 seconds /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 5.5% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 10.8% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 16.1% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 21.3% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 26.5% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 31.9% /dev/dasdd1: Moved: 32.8% Updating volume group metadata Creating volume group backup /etc/lvm/backup/system (seqno 9). Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvusr (253:0) Suspending system-pvmove0 (253:5) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvvar (253:1) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvopt (253:2) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvhome (253:3) Found volume group system Found volume group system Suspending system-lvtmp (253:4) Found volume group system Found volume group system Found volume group system Loading system-pvmove0 table Resuming system-pvmove0 (253:5) (here the output stops) Now the system freezes slowly: sshd still gives a login-prompt, but if I enter the password no login is possible. Other open ssh sessions freeze are working until I enter a command. After a few minutes sshd doesn't answer any more. If I reboot the system it doesn't comes up, because the pvmove
2009-02-09 Linux on System z Documentation update on developerWorks
Please refer to: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/whatsnew.html ... for the 2009-02-09 change summary: - New Web 2.0 papers for: Novell SUSE SLES10 SP2 Red Hat RHEL5.2 * end of message Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Gerhard Hiller Systems Software Management IBM Systems Technology Group, Systems Software Development Phone: +49-7031-16-4388 IBM Deutschland Fax: +49-7031-16-3545 Schoenaicher Str. 220 E-Mail: ghil...@de.ibm.com 71032 Boeblingen Germany IBM Deutschland Research Development GmbH / Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschäftsführung: Erich Baier Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 image/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gifimage/gif
Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 6 Feb 2009 to 7 Feb 2009 (#2009-37)
For years, in the era of PROFS, I said of typical CMS users: If it's not on a PFkey, it doesn't exist! So this is an obvious analogy... if it doesn't connect to MVS, OS/ESA, OS/390, z/OS it doesn't exist. FBA... change you could have believed in. But change is hard... and expensive. Yet in hindsight... Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. In reply to: -- Date:Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:23:42 -0500 From:Rick Troth r...@casita.net Subject: Re: Formatting 60 mod9s Of course ... if IBM still sold FBA channel attached storage, there would be no formatting required (in the low level sense). I had to. I had to say it. Blame Poughkeepsie. -- R; The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: pvmove hangs
On 2/9/2009 at 9:20 AM, Sebastian Korte zlinu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list! I try to move all logical volumes which reside on a minidisk (/dev/dasdd1) on DASD MOD9 to a minidisk (/dev/dasde1) on DASD MOD54. / and /boot reside on separate minidisks, the rest is LVM managed. -snip- Now the system freezes slowly -snip- The system comes up and pvmove starts to work again: (lvm2copyd)-a y After pvmove is ready I replace the fstab with its original and reboot. Voila, here we go again. Try using pvmove --abort to kill the move in progress. This looks very similar to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473309 pvmove freezes system that was just opened recently. I would suggest opening up a service request with your service provider. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 6 Feb 2009 to 7 Feb 2009 (#2009-37)
Well, the battle is over, and guess what, FBA won. SCSI/SAS/SATA is basically all FBA. Wonder what would have happened if IBM hat shut up Poughkeepsie. Would the world have moved off mainframes in the way it has? Best regards, Pieter Harder pieter.har...@brabantwater.nl tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] Namens Mike Walter Verzonden: maandag 9 februari 2009 18:05 Aan: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 6 Feb 2009 to 7 Feb 2009 (#2009-37) For years, in the era of PROFS, I said of typical CMS users: If it's not on a PFkey, it doesn't exist! So this is an obvious analogy... if it doesn't connect to MVS, OS/ESA, OS/390, z/OS it doesn't exist. FBA... change you could have believed in. But change is hard... and expensive. Yet in hindsight... Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. In reply to: -- Date:Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:23:42 -0500 From:Rick Troth r...@casita.net Subject: Re: Formatting 60 mod9s Of course ... if IBM still sold FBA channel attached storage, there would be no formatting required (in the low level sense). I had to. I had to say it. Blame Poughkeepsie. -- R; The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Brabant Water N.V. Postbus 1068 5200 BC 's-Hertogenbosch http://www.brabantwater.nl Handelsregister: 16005077 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
question on TCPIP|RHEL|JAVA|TOMCAT
We had a problem today with a Tomcat application on RHEL (admittedly on Intel). This application asks for a person's userid and password. It then validates these via LDAP. The LDAP server is our Windows AD. The URL used actually has 5 IP addresses returned. The application always uses the same IP address and only that IP address. It ignores the other 4 entirely as best as we can tell. I have been told that the IP which it uses is the closest one. I can tell from the IP address, that it is on a different subnet from the others, so I guess that is closest. Today, that AD server simply did not respond correctly. netstat showed a status of SYN_SENT and the application eventually timed out with an error message to that effect. It never tried any of the alternatives. We eventually had to point the application to a single, specific, Windows AD box. It then began to work. Now my question: Is it normal for a Java application running under Tomcat6 to always use the closest IP address? Is this caused by: (1) the code in the application (which is close sourced, so I can't look at it); (2) the way that Java (JDNI?) works?; (3) The way that the TCPIP stack on Linux works? If there is a better forum for this type of question, please tell me. I know Linux fairly well in my home LAN environment, which is Linux only. I know how to gen kernels and other things. But Enterprise Level LAN only confuse me. And I can't touch ours anyway (thanks be to God!). -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
RHEL 5.2 Native LPAR install problem: Anaconda reports rpm 'corruption' error when attempting to install first package
I am a newbie to Linux on z, but I have been given the go-ahead to install a linux on z system subject to the constraints: 1) I keep it quiet to avoid offending our Solaris admins 2) do not invite fee-charging external consultants 3) not not install z/VM 4) do not compromise the integrity of existing Mainframe-based systems I work for a retail company in England, and I have proposed making use of our normally idle Disaster Recovery mainframe (a z990 3-x model) to install either Suse or Red Hat Linux distributions. I/we elected to use the Native LPAR install method, using the tape loader and install DVD inserted into the HMC. Native LPAR because we do not (currently!) have z/VM, and tape loader (tapeipl.ikr, parmfile, etc on a cart), followed by installing packages on the DVD within the HMC, because our D/R network is isolated so that I can't access a suitable server. (The Suse SLES10 SP1/SP2 install failed because of mismatch between the TAPEIPL modules and the memory resident INITRD file system. I guess no one at Suse/Novell thought anyone would install via a TAPEIPL in an native LPAR, so did not test it... :-( ) So I tried RHEL 5.2 which looked much more promising... RHEL 5.2 booted off the tape, and I specified the configuration paramteer values, and then Anaconda install intialised itself. However during the very first rpm package install of system-config-services-0.9.4-1.e15.noarch.rpm, the following error message dialog box is displayed: Package Installation Error The file system-config-services-0.9.4-1.e15.noarch.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupt package, or a missing header Please verify your installation source.. etc. REBOOT RETRY Now, I regestered myself on the Red Hat site, and downloaded a trial copy of their distro. I have noted the Installation Number, and I believe I have entered it in correctly when I tried the install. I have also been meticulous in checking the accurary of the DVD image when I downloaded it (to a Windows Vista PC) MD5 Verification:Run md5sum *.iso I used Windows-Vista Roxio CD/DVD burner to burn the ISO image to a DVD.. I have tried running through the RHEL 5.1 install several times, specifying different install packages, but rpm validity checking always fails when attempting to install system-config-services (which I guess is always the 1st package to install). I am at a loss to work out what the most likely cause of this error is: 1) invalid entering of Instalation Number (does rpm use this unique key?), 2) invalid or corrupt DVD (I would have thought unlikely, given that I successfully extracted tapeipl.ikr and Initrd etc off it). 3) newbie ingnorance (a most likely cause?!) I have *not* contacted Red Hat support directly, because I may get billed, or an enterprising salesman may come knocking on my Department Managers door. In order to generate some interest in Linux on a Mainframe, I have to demonstrate what is possible without resorting to: additional software (z/VM), or additional costs (experienced consultants). Both software and consultants can come later - once I have generated sufficient interest by demonstrating a real system. I am submitting this post in the hope that a more experienced individual may provide me with some pointers that will help me make a success of Linux on Mainframe! Regards Rapp -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: RHEL 5.2 Native LPAR install problem: Anaconda reports rpm 'corruption' error when attempting to install first package
bruce woodley wrote: Package Installation Error The file system-config-services-0.9.4-1.e15.noarch.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupt package, or a missing header Please verify your installation source.. etc. REBOOT RETRY One think you could check is whether or not the file system-config-services-0.9.4-1.e15.noarch.rpm is or is not present anywhere on the DVD. If it is not you can probably find it somewhere and compose yourself a new ISO with the missing file present. -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.com/~jax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't get http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep easily afterwards. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: RHEL 5.2 Native LPAR install problem: Anaconda reports rpm 'corruption' error when attempting to install first package
Hi Jax! That was quick - I was anticipating a turn-around time of 24 hours or so! I believe that we did find this rpm directory on the DVD, (along with many others), but we were not able to rpm -V it because we do not have any linux (of any distro on any platform) at work. However, I have been given a Solaris Live CD (by the Solaris admins!),but I do not think Sun use rpm packaging method, so I do not think that this would help me. On my Fedora system at home, I do not have a DVD drive, so I cant rpm -V there. I will pass on your response to some mainframers within my team at work, and see if we can see a way forward. regards rapp01 On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote: bruce woodley wrote: Package Installation Error The file system-config-services-0.9.4-1.e15.noarch.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file, a corrupt package, or a missing header Please verify your installation source.. etc. REBOOT RETRY One think you could check is whether or not the file system-config-services-0.9.4-1.e15.noarch.rpm is or is not present anywhere on the DVD. If it is not you can probably find it somewhere and compose yourself a new ISO with the missing file present. -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.com/~jax http://www.well.com/%7Ejax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't get http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep easily afterwards. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: RHEL 5.2 Native LPAR install problem: Anaconda reports rpm 'corruption' error when attempting to install first package
On Tuesday, 02/10/2009 at 01:10 EST, bruce woodley rapp0...@googlemail.com wrote: I have also been meticulous in checking the accurary of the DVD image when I downloaded it (to a Windows Vista PC) MD5 Verification:Run md5sum *.iso I used Windows-Vista Roxio CD/DVD burner to burn the ISO image to a DVD. I have tried running through the RHEL 5.1 install several times, specifying different install packages, but rpm validity checking always fails when attempting to install system-config-services (which I guess is always the 1st package to install). IIRC, Windows doesn't support some of the DVD extensions used by Linux, particularly if the filesystem has symbolic links in it. Try putting the DVD in a Linux or other Unix FTP server. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
