Re: SLES15 SP3 Quarterly Update Images (QU2) released

2022-02-15 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 3:00 PM Mark Post wrote: > > Scroll further down and you'll also see: > SLE-15-SP3-Online-s390x-QU2-Media1.iso and > SLE-15-SP3-Online-s390x-QU2-Media2.iso. The Media2 image only contains > source, so it will not be needed to perform an install. > > These are the "online"

Re: Thinly provisioned dasd and SuSE

2021-05-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 5:13 PM Jan Höppner wrote: > On 06/05/2021 09:00, Christer Solskogen wrote: > > When installing SuSE (15SP2) I cannot use the installer to format a 3390 > > which is thinly provisioned from the disk system. The installer will fail > > when forma

Thinly provisioned dasd and SuSE

2021-05-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
When installing SuSE (15SP2) I cannot use the installer to format a 3390 which is thinly provisioned from the disk system. The installer will fail when formatting. I can do a dasdfmt manually with "-M full" before starting the installation, and that will work. Is this a known bug?

Re: Satellite server for zlinux

2020-02-27 Thread Christer Solskogen
It should also work. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:58 AM Peter wrote: > In my case server as X86 and client s390 for redhat ? > > On Thu, 27 Feb, 2020, 12:49 PM Christer Solskogen, < > christer.solsko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It should. We run SuSE Manager on s390x and

Re: Satellite server for zlinux

2020-02-27 Thread Christer Solskogen
It should. We run SuSE Manager on s390x and only serving s390x machines, but in theory we could also add x86_64 clients to it. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 8:50 AM Peter wrote: > Hello > > Does satellite Server concept works for Mainframe ? > > If this is a doable can we run satellite Server on x86 a

Re: dasd_configure in SLES 12 SP4

2019-05-31 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:48 PM Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Mark, > > > The wrappers will be removed at some point in the future. > Why? Doing so will break scripts we have ... > > Same here. I would urge SuSE to keep them. -- F

ucarp alternative on SLES?

2018-02-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
It looks to me that ucarp is not available for SLES. Is there a good alternative that I can use? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX

Diagnose high wait

2017-04-24 Thread Christer Solskogen
While we're at talking about high steal% , could somebody share some insights about how to diagnose high wait%? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the mess

Re: Problems registering with SUSEConnect

2017-02-19 Thread Christer Solskogen
Already done. On Feb 18, 2017 23:42, "Mark Post" wrote: > >>> On 2/17/2017 at 02:03 AM, Christer Solskogen < > christer.solsko...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Both "read_vaule -s" and "read_value -c" gives return_code=-2. This is

Re: Problems registering with SUSEConnect

2017-02-17 Thread Christer Solskogen
I tried running the same LPAR (and Linux) on z13. Same error. On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Christer Solskogen < christer.solsko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Both "read_vaule -s" and "read_value -c" gives return_code=-2. This is > running on zVM 6.2 on a zEC12. >

Re: Problems registering with SUSEConnect

2017-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
Both "read_vaule -s" and "read_value -c" gives return_code=-2. This is running on zVM 6.2 on a zEC12. return_value -V gives Version 1.0 2015-10-12 13:31. On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 2/16/2017 at 08:17 AM, Christer Solskogen

Re: Problems registering with SUSEConnect

2017-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
is a > fix, sorry I'm in the wilds at the moment. As a work-a-round us a 7 byte or > less node name. > __R > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. > Original Message > From: Christer Solskogen > Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2017 11:53 > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Problems registering with SUSEConnect

2017-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
OS: SLES12 SP2 It seems like the command "read_values" is having problems. Output of "read_values -c" gives: Error: Unable to open configuration, return_code= -2 anyone else seen this? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: WWN change

2016-10-30 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Steffen Maier wrote: < a lot> This was *really* helpful. Thanks! -- chs -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message:

Re: WWN change

2016-10-27 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Thursday, 10/27/2016 at 02:32 GMT, "Cohen, Sam" > wrote: > > If you're not replacing the target SAN disks, then there are no changes > to z/VM or a Linux > > connections (as long as the IOADDRS are unchanged). Your SAN fabric has > to ch

WWN change

2016-10-27 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! We are in the process of moving our z/VMs and all of the linux systems over to z13 from a zEC12. And just to make it even more complicated we are moving. That also means that the disk system is also moved (DS8870). The disk system is somehow in sync with the old system, I'm no storage guy so I

Re: 2016-07-21 Linux on z Systems - Kernel 4.5 related updates on developerWorks

2016-08-18 Thread Christer Solskogen
Are there any distributions that package this kernels? On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Gerhard Hiller wrote: > Please refer to > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/whatsnew.html > for several updates to the 'Development stream': > * kernel 4.5 patch for kernel message catalog >

Re: qeth.5cb8a3: 0.0.0700: The qeth device is not configured for the OSI layer required by z/VM

2016-08-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
ack to SLES11 SP4, > after the upgrade I had to reconfigure the network with yast. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 16, 2016, at 08:47, Christer Solskogen >> wrote: >> >> This is a fresh install. >> The weird thing is that if I configure the nic as a

Re: qeth.5cb8a3: 0.0.0700: The qeth device is not configured for the OSI layer required by z/VM

2016-08-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
ue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Michael Weiner wrote: > Hi Christer, > > Are you upgrading or fresh install? > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 16, 2016, at 08:26, Christer Solskogen >> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm trying to install SLES11S

qeth.5cb8a3: 0.0.0700: The qeth device is not configured for the OSI layer required by z/VM

2016-08-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! I'm trying to install SLES11SP4 on a machine on one of our z/VMs, but I can't seem to get past the error mentioned in subject when I configure the network. As far as I know, our vswitches are all layer 3 (how can I check if it is?) - and even if I configure it as layer 2, the network does not

Re: A must...

2016-04-07 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Agblad Tore (Supplier) wrote: > Anyone got a car with this extra feature ? :) > > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CToKWCDUAAAUeJ7.jpg > What?! Photoshop? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: zswap missing?

2016-03-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mar 11, 2016 15:19, "Nix, Robert P." wrote: > > I have to agree with Mark. From the beginning, the goal was to keep Linux > from swapping, and allow zVM to page if necessary. There¹s no sense in two > different layers virtualizing memory. If you¹re pushing into swap, > consider making the virtu

Re: zswap missing?

2016-03-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:27 PM, wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zswap > > Seems like this is experimental This is a bit more technical: https://lwn.net/Articles/537422/ I wouldn't say experimental anymore, since it's been in the kernel since 3.7. The reason I'm asking is that on x86_64

Re: Development sources for SLES12SP1

2016-03-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Roger Evans wrote: > Does anybody know where to find the development sources for SLES12 SP1? > Specifically, I need the readline.h, prcre.h and openssl header files to > build Openresty. > You'll find them in the following packages: readline-devel pcre-devel a

zswap missing?

2016-03-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! Isn't zswap available for s390x? I can't find anything on either SLES11 or SLES12. -- chs -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-

Re: LINUX SSH problem.

2016-03-03 Thread Christer Solskogen
Do you happen to log in as root? Because that won't work. On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Offer Baruch wrote: > I think that ssh does not allow for your home directory to be write enabled > for the group (i have seen this on redhat). > Make sure your home directory has the correct permissions...

Re: MTU size

2016-01-29 Thread Christer Solskogen
Thanks everyone! I've learned something today as well! -- 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/

MTU size

2016-01-29 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! On all of my x86_64 Linux boxes the default MTU is 1500. But with SuSE (both 11 and 12) on s390 they seems to be 1492. How come? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.ma

Re: New Subscriber's first question.

2015-12-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Mark Post wrote: >>>> On 12/19/2015 at 06:12 AM, Christer Solskogen >>>> > wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Davis, Jim [PRI-1PP] >> wrote: >>> My kernel parm has cmma=on. >>> Is there a way t

Re: New Subscriber's first question.

2015-12-19 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Davis, Jim [PRI-1PP] wrote: > My kernel parm has cmma=on. > Is there a way to display that it is actually active? > cat /proc/cmdline -- chs -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 1 is now available

2015-12-17 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Mark Post wrote: > Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main. > > All, > > See $SUBJECT. You can find the iso images for z Systems at > https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=oAh1b3eeGT0~ > I cant seem to download it. Invalid token. And if I go the sus

Re: OpenMainframeProject

2015-12-13 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Phil Tully wrote: > Yes I am involved with the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project. We have a > Technical Steering Committee which set the project direction. We expect to > have focus on projects that will benefit running open software on the > mainframe.

OpenMainframeProject

2015-12-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
I haven't seen that been discussed here. Are any of you guys involved somehow? -- chs -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or vi

Re: One zfcp channel, two wwpn

2015-11-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
Please ignore. I found it when I spoke to our disk guy. It seems like the disk is located on a other physical disk system. On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > Hi! > > On some of our servers we have one wwpn on one zfcp channel. But on > others, we have two

One zfcp channel, two wwpn

2015-11-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! On some of our servers we have one wwpn on one zfcp channel. But on others, we have two wwpn. (so we have four wwpn's all sumed up, since we have two zfcp channels pr. server) Can anyone explain how that might be? -- chs --

Re: SLES12 - yast does not create a udev rule

2015-11-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
Yes, that gave me a hint. The udev rules does NOT get created if the qeth device is active. On Nov 10, 2015 15:49, "Mark Post" wrote: > >>> On 11/10/2015 at 04:57 AM, Christer Solskogen < > christer.solsko...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi! > > > >

SLES12 - yast does not create a udev rule

2015-11-10 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! I've setup the network in YaST, but the device does not start automagicly when I reboot the machine (running as a guest in z/VM). I was pretty sure that YaST would create a file under /etc/udev/rules.d called 51-qeth-0.0.0603.rules (or something) - the address is 603,604 and 605. I can get the

Re: Match zFCP lun to device

2015-09-17 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Benjamin Block wrote: > If you only have the device-node name at hand and you want to know the > LUN for investigation purposes or something the like, you could also ask > udev to tell you its mapping for the node name: > >udevadm info /dev/sda | grep zfcp

Re: Match zFCP lun to device

2015-09-17 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Berthold Gunreben wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:14:07 +0200 > Christer Solskogen wrote: > >> Is there a simple way of matching /dev/sdX to the correct FCP lun? > > I guess you are searching for something like > > lszfcp -D > >

Re: Match zFCP lun to device

2015-09-17 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Pedro Henrique dos Santos Principeza wrote: > Christer, > > I believe the command: > > # lsluns -a > > May show what you're looking for. Here: Almost. It lists the luns, but not which device they are match to (only some ambiguous /dev/sdg* device) -- chs

Match zFCP lun to device

2015-09-17 Thread Christer Solskogen
Is there a simple way of matching /dev/sdX to the correct FCP lun? -- chs -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://w

Re: SUSE Manager for z Systems

2015-08-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Mark Post wrote: > All, > > I'm glad to (finally) be able to announce that our SUSE Manager product is > now available for the mainframe. We've been using this since february. It's working pretty good, but taskomatic tends to crash (and not able to recover) some

Re: Problem adding a zfcp disk

2015-07-01 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Mark Post wrote: > Then I would suggest trying this: > zfcp_disk_configure 0.0.8030 0x5974082a4120 0x002f > Problem found. The LUN was activate on another server. But thanks anyways :-) -- chs -

Re: Problem adding a zfcp disk

2015-07-01 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Mark Post wrote: > Did you select the Add function and "get luns" ? > Yeah, nothing shows up. But I don't recall that has ever worked either on our setup. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / a

Problem adding a zfcp disk

2015-07-01 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! I have trouble adding a lun to a SuSE machine. I've tried adding the disk with channel, wwpn and lun in YaST. No error, but the lun does not show in the list Yast -> Hardware -> Zfcp. But the lun does show here: /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/zfcp/0.0.8030/0x5974082a4120/0x002f But I d

Re: Find LUN (zfcp) in use from z/VM?

2015-05-08 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Berthold Gunreben wrote: > > I suppose you are talking about emulated DASD, right? In that case, the > defined EDEV provides you with an rdev that can be queried like other > DASD too. No. Or, I don't think so. I normally have to configure them using yast (zfcp).

Find LUN (zfcp) in use from z/VM?

2015-05-08 Thread Christer Solskogen
Is there any way to check, from z/VM, if a lun is in use in any of the virtual machines ? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or

Re: Booting, grub etc.

2015-04-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Berthold Gunreben wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:33:02 +0200 > Hi Christer, > > yes, you might fall over issues in SLES12 when using swapgen. The > reason is, that dracut by default wants to detect all disks by UUID. To > fix this, you will have to change the defa

Re: Booting, grub etc.

2015-04-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Mark Post wrote: >>>> On 4/20/2015 at 07:33 AM, Christer Solskogen > wrote: >> Hi again. >> >> With SLES 12 it seems like grub2 is being used for booting and not >> zipl(?) - I can't find a /etc/zipl.conf* in SLES 12 a

Booting, grub etc.

2015-04-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi again. With SLES 12 it seems like grub2 is being used for booting and not zipl(?) - I can't find a /etc/zipl.conf* in SLES 12 at least. Is that normal? With SLES 12 I also had some trouble booting the system properly after a clean install (it might have something to do with the swap disk I me

kernel: Swap area shorter than signature indicates

2015-04-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! In our setup we have two swap disks. One on 300 and one on 301. 300 works fine, but with the 301 swap disk I get the error in subject. This *only* happens if I logout, if I just reboot (or ipl cms) it works just fine, so it *might* have something to do with SWAPGEN. 'SWAPGEN 300 524288' /* cr