Originally posted by: ruecker

I am (or rather AIX is) having a problem in creating a nim spot from an lpp_source. This is what I do:

A lpp_source with simages exists:

$ lsnim -l lpp71000109
lpp71000109:
   class       = resources
   type        = lpp_source
   arch        = power
   Rstate      = ready for use
   prev_state  = unavailable
   location    = /export/eznim/lpp_source/lpp71000109
   simages     = yes
   alloc_count = 0
   server      = master
 

Now creating the spot:

$ nim -o define -t spot -a server=master -a source=lpp71000109 -a location=/export/eznim/spot spot71000109

 SPOT wird in "/export/eznim/spot" auf Maschine "master" aus "lpp71000109" erstellt...

 Dateien werden aus dem BOS-Image wiederhergestellt.  Dieser Vorgang kann einige Minuten dauern...

0042-001 nim: Verarbeitungsfehler in "master":
   0042-001 m_mkspot: Verarbeitungsfehler in "master":
   0042-003 c_mkspot: Fehler in Systemaufruf. Informationen folgen:
                      unknown source type " lpp_source"

The Messages are partly in german but I hope they are still comprehensable. It seems like nim is complaining about a wrong source type " lpp_source", and it might the blank at the beginning of the " lpp_source" that could the source of this problem.

I could not find anything helpfull on 0042-003 c_mkspot. Has anyone seen a similar problem or has suggestions how to fix or analyze this?

Thank you very much for sharing your ideas and your help!

The problem  arises both with AIX 7.1 TL1 SP9 and with TL3 SP2.

Originally posted by: ruecker

The Problem was known in earlier AIX Versions and is reported under CMVC Defect 267730

NIM Spot Fails when LANG=de_DE


Workaround instructions
-----------------------
The purpose of this workaround is to correct a problem
with the message catalog, cndnim.cat, which causes
the spot generation with the de_DE locale to fail.

The existing cmdnim.cat contains blank spaces in
front of two resources, " lpp_source" and
" installp_bundle". These blank spaces have been
removed by using dspcat -g cmdnim.cat > cmdnim.msg;
removing the suspect blank spaces and rebuilding the
message catalog with gencat cmdnim.cat cmdnim.msg.


1. Create output file to edit

# dspcat -g /usr/lib/nls/msg/de_DE/cmdnim.cat > /tmp/cmdnim.msg

2. Edit /tmp/cmdnim.msg to remove blank spaces in front of
" lpp_source" and " installp_bundle"

3. Use gencat to create new cmdnim.cat

# gencat /tmp/cmdnim.cat /tmp/cmdnim.msg

4. Copy new cmdnim.cat to /usr/lib/nls/msg/de_DE/cmdnim.cat

That did it for me.