Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hello

I try to migrate a AIX 5.2 to 5.3. The migration seems to run and terminate normally, but there's a problem
with the devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte fileset:

• I start with oslevel -s 5200-10-04-0750. lppchk -v -f and -l doesn't show any errors.
• The choosen methode is "Alternate Disk Migration" using NIM.
• The NIM servers oslevel: 5300-08-01-0819, lppsource and SPOT: 5300-08
• After the migration the target systems oslevel -s shows 5300-08-01-0819. Everything ok so far.

... but...

• lppchk -v shows

lppchk: The following filesets need to be installed or corrected to bring
the system to a consistent state:

devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.2.0.0 (not installed; requisite fileset)
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.2.0.106 (usr: not installed, root: COMMITTED)
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.2.0.108 (usr: not installed, root: COMMITTED)
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.2.0.110 (usr: not installed, root: COMMITTED)
extract of alt_mig_log:

MISSING REQUISITES: The following filesets are requisites of one or more
of the selected filesets listed above. They are not currently installed
on the system. You should install these requisites to ensure that the
selected filesets function correctly. You MUST install these requisites
before committing the selected filesets.

devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.2.0.10 # MPIO Disk Path Control Module
This results in 405 not COMMITED filesets!
MPIO is not used, so I could remove the fileset. Because of non-deinstallable filesets (like bos.mp64,
bos.rte etc.) this is not possible.

Anyone has an idea?

Thanks

Patrice
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Originally posted by: tony.evans

Don't understand the bit where you say you can't remove that fileset, can you list the error/info you get when you try?

edit:
Actually scratch that, I suspect that even if you don't use MPIO your underlying disk subsystem drivers require the MPIO filesets to be there just in case, this is what lslpp -d devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte shows at this end,

lslpp -d devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte Fileset               Dependents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Fileset> is a requisite of <Dependents> Path: /usr/lib/objrepos devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.2.0.0 devices.scsi.disk.rte 5.2.0.0 devices.fcp.disk.rte 5.2.0.0 devices.scsi.disk.rte 5.2.0.10 devices.fcp.disk.rte 5.2.0.10 devices.common.IBM.scsi.rte 5.2.0.10 devices.common.IBM.scsi.rte 5.2.0.30 devices.fcp.disk.rte 5.2.0.30 devices.scsi.disk.rte 5.2.0.30 devices.common.IBM.scsi.rte 5.2.0.60 devices.scsi.disk.rte 5.2.0.75 devices.fcp.disk.rte 5.2.0.75 devices.common.IBM.scsi.rte 5.2.0.75 devices.fcp.disk.rte 5.2.0.98 devices.common.IBM.scsi.rte 5.2.0.95 devices.scsi.disk.rte 5.2.0.96 devices.pci.df1000f7.com 5.2.0.109 devices.fcp.disk.rte 5.2.0.110 devices.sas.rte 5.2.0.0 devices.iscsi.disk.rte 5.2.0.105 devices.scsi.disk.rte 5.2.0.108 devices.common.IBM.scsi.rte 5.2.0.107

Have you tried installing devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.2.0.10?

Message was edited by: tony.evans
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Yes, I tried. But of course it has a lot of level 5.2 fileset requisites. And is it a good idea to install
5.2 filesets on a AIX 5.3 ??

(devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte cannot be removed because of non-deinstallable dependents like bos.mp64, bos.rte etc)
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

do you have other 5.2 filesets on the server as well or just the mpio one ?

Message was edited by: Sandeepr
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Yes, X11.loc.fr_FR.base.lib and bos.man.en_US.cmds are at 5.2 level. Please see the attached lslpp output.

mpio is at 5.3.8.1 but not in a COMMITTED state.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

ok I believe you can remove the 5.3 version of mpio without problems its the 5.2 ones which are causing problems to you rite ?

can you give me output of
lslpp -l devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
lslpp -h devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte

also
odmget -q name=devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte lpp
I will log in back in a while
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Here comes the output:

lslpp -l devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
Fileset Level State Description
<hr />
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
5.3.8.1 APPLIED MPIO Disk Path Control Module

Path: /etc/objrepos
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
5.3.8.1 APPLIED MPIO Disk Path Control Module
lslpp -h devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
Fileset Level Action Status Date Time
<hr />
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
5.3.0.50 COMMIT COMPLETE 05/08/08 12:15:27
5.3.8.1 APPLY COMPLETE 05/08/08 13:27:40

Path: /etc/objrepos
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
5.2.0.10 NONE
5.2.0.106 COMMIT COMPLETE 07/25/07 12:13:59
5.2.0.108 COMMIT COMPLETE 07/26/07 08:54:54
5.2.0.110 COMMIT COMPLETE 04/29/08 12:09:35
5.3.8.1 APPLY COMPLETE 05/08/08 13:27:59
odmget -q name=devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte lpp

lpp:
name = "devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte"
size = 0
state = 1
cp_flag = 275
group = ""
magic_letter = "I"
ver = 5
rel = 2
mod = 0
fix = 10
description = "MPIO Disk Path Control Module"
lpp_id = 322
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I removed all entries with an lpp_id of the fileset from the odm classes lpp, inventory,
history and product. Thank you Sandeepr for this suggestion!

After odmdelete lslpp shows the following:
lslpp -h devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
Fileset Level Action Status Date Time
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
5.3.0.50 COMMIT COMPLETE 05/08/08 12:15:27
5.3.8.1 APPLY COMPLETE 05/08/08 13:27:40

After COMMIT and re-install of devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.3.8.1:
lslpp -h devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
Fileset Level Action Status Date Time
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
5.3.0.50 COMMIT COMPLETE 05/08/08 12:15:27
5.3.8.1 COMMIT COMPLETE 07/02/08 10:02:10

Path: /etc/objrepos
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
5.3.0.50 NONE
5.3.8.1 COMMIT COMPLETE 07/02/08 10:18:51
Then I re-installed the base level fileset (5.3.0.50) with the -force flag and
got a bosboot verification error.

bosboot -ad hdisk2
0301-154 bosboot: missing proto file: /usr/lib/drivers/aixapdiskpcmke
lslpp now says:
lslpp -h devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
Fileset Level Action Status Date Time
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
5.3.0.50 COMMIT COMPLETE 07/02/08 10:49:22

Path: /etc/objrepos
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte
5.3.0.50 NONE
5.3.8.1 COMMIT COMPLETE 07/02/08 10:18:51
lppchk -v
lppchk: The following filesets need to be installed or corrected to bring
the system to a consistent state:

devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.3.8.0 (not installed; requisite fileset)
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.3.8.0 (not installed; requisite fileset)
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.3.0.60 (not installed; requisite fileset)
devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte 5.3.7.0 (not installed; requisite fileset)

What should I do? Thank you for any help!

Patrice

Message was edited by: notesdeveloperworks
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

sorry for being very late to reply on this. did you delete the odm entries after setting ODMDIR to /usr/lib/objrepos as well ?
if not can you do that

and then install the mpio 5.3.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

yes, I did exactly so. but can't remember if there was actually deleted something...
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Ok! I did the alternate disk migration again, removed all entries with an lpp_id of this fileset from the odm classes lpp, inventory, history and product in both /etc/objrepos and /usr/lib/objrepos, then I installed devices.common.IBM.mpio.rte and could finally commit all filesets remaining in APPLIED state. Obviously I did a
mistake on the first try. I hope everything is ok now.

Patrice
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi Patrice:

I am facing the same issue as you when migrating an AIX 5.2 partition using NIM Alternate Disk Migration procedure. However, I was not succeed when overcoming the problem as you did. I presume I left something important in the way. Could you please precise the actions you performed to migrate your server to AIX 5.3 succesfully?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards,

Ramon Cisternas
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