Suse Linux install on z Lpar

2015-02-11 Thread Steve P
Hello All, Has there been any occurrences of CP disabled wait states during installation of Suse 11 sp3 Linux in a z Lpar environment? Just thought I would see if anyone on here has run into a similar situation. Thanks, Steve -

Re: Suse Linux install on z Lpar

2015-02-11 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Steve. Yes, there have been issues with CP when doing Linux installs; usually in the area of mis-configured zLinux guest user directory entries. What CP problem are you seen there? Have a good one, too. DJ On 2/11/2015 10:42 AM, Steve P wrote: Hello All, Has there been any occurrences of

Suse 11 SP3 Installing packages

2015-02-11 Thread Steve P
While installing packages, the installer stops and issues messages about unable to access a file in dvd1. I verified that the file is there. However, I look at the file name in the message and there is a "%2F" in front of it. See screen shot attached. Can anyone shed some light into this? Thank

Re: Suse 11 SP3 Installing packages

2015-02-11 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Steve. OK we've seen problems like this before. Unfortunately, the list does not allow for attachments, so we can't see the screen shot. DJ On 2/11/2015 11:27 AM, Steve P wrote: While installing packages, the installer stops and issues messages about unable to access a file in dvd1. I veri

Re: Suse Linux install on z Lpar

2015-02-11 Thread Steve P
Dave, Thanks. It looks like it happened while formatting/partitioning disks (dasd). However this second time around it actually completed and did not get the error again. I'm concerned that it happened and will it occur again while it is running in a production environment. We have reported the

Re: Suse Linux install on z Lpar

2015-02-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/11/2015 at 12:17 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > Hi, Steve. > > Yes, there have been issues with CP when doing Linux installs; usually > in the area of mis-configured zLinux guest user directory entries. > > What CP problem are you seen there? It's an LPAR, so no z/VM involved. Mark Post -

Re: Suse 11 SP3 Installing packages

2015-02-11 Thread Steve P
Ok I forgot about that. Well here is what the message said (shirt version): Cannot Access installation media Timeout exceed when accessing 'ftp://hmcmsaccess@155.7.7.7/%2F suse/noarch/yast2-theme-SLE-2.17.27-0.18.9.noarch.rpm Thanks On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, Dave Jones wrote: > Hi, Ste

Re: Suse 11 SP3 Installing packages

2015-02-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/11/2015 at 12:43 PM, Steve P wrote: > Ok I forgot about that. Well here is what the message said (shirt version): > > Cannot Access installation media > Timeout exceed when accessing 'ftp://hmcmsaccess@155.7.7.7/%2F > suse/noarch/yast2-theme-SLE-2.17.27-0.18.9.noarch.rpm OK, a timeout

Re: Suse 11 SP3 Installing packages

2015-02-11 Thread Steve P
Maybe the FTP access had a time limitation? Either way, I closed and re-established the FTP access to the hmc DVD. Replied skip to that one yast rpm file (hopefully it won't bite us later). The install appears to be continuing on. Thanks, Steve On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, Mark Post wrote

Re: Suse 11 SP3 Installing packages

2015-02-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 02/11/2015 at 12:46 EST, Steve P wrote: > Ok I forgot about that. Well here is what the message said (shirt version): > > Cannot Access installation media > Timeout exceed when accessing 'ftp://hmcmsaccess@155.7.7.7/%2F > suse/noarch/yast2-theme-SLE-2.17.27-0.18.9.noarch.rpm 0x2F is

Re: Suse 11 SP3 Installing packages

2015-02-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/11/2015 at 01:10 PM, Steve P wrote: > Maybe the FTP access had a time limitation? Either way, I closed and > re-established the FTP access to the hmc DVD. Replied skip to that one > yast rpm file (hopefully it won't bite us later). The install appears to > be continuing on. You could

Re: Suse 11 SP3 Installing packages

2015-02-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/11/2015 at 01:10 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > 0x2F is the ASCII forward slash. In a URL, the slashes are relevant, so > if you tried to represent ...7.7.7//suse then it looks like is starts > at a null root. Bt! So it must be converted to %2F to ensure that > the FTP client won'

Multi path issues after SLES 11 SP3

2015-02-11 Thread Nottra, Jerri
Hi Has anyone else experienced issues with multipath after SP3? whenever reloading multipath to rename mpaths we seem to lose all our permissions on existing devices namely OracleASM disks, thus causing the DB to crash out. Device permissions are managed by udev rules so not sure where the issu

Re: Multi path issues after SLES 11 SP3

2015-02-11 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Jeri, I remember running into that quite a while back. I found an old piece of bash code that might help (no warranties :)) I recall it only had to be run once at 'first boot time', then the ownership of the ASM disks would survive reboots. Hope it helps... #+---

Re: Multi path issues after SLES 11 SP3

2015-02-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/11/2015 at 01:32 PM, "Nottra, Jerri" wrote: > Has anyone else experienced issues with multipath after SP3? whenever > reloading multipath to rename mpaths we seem to lose all our permissions on > existing devices namely OracleASM disks, thus causing the DB to crash out. > Device permi

Re: Install of SUSE Linux on IBM z LPAR

2015-02-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
We decided very early (2001?) that we would only run mainframe Linux under z/VM. Seeing discussions like this certainly makes me glad we made that decision. I don't know if it makes a difference, but we run Red Hat Linux, to be consistent with our midrange Linux folks. Is either Red Hat or SUS