Originally posted by: grukrz1

Hello,

I get such error from nimadm trying to migrate AIX on a client:

Client alt_disk_install command: alt_disk_copy -M 5.3 -P1 -d "hdisk3"
ksh: /ALT_MIG_SPOT/sbin/alt_disk_copy: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.
0505-187 nimadm: Error cloning altinst_rootvg on client.
Cleaning up alt_disk_migration on the NIM master.
Cleaning up alt_disk_migration on client bd32un.
Client alt_disk_install command: alt_disk_install -M 5.3 -X
ksh: /ALT_MIG_SPOT/sbin/alt_disk_install: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.
0505-192 nimadm: WARNING, cleanup may not have completed successfully.
I do it as user root and file /ALT_MIG_SPOT/sbin/alt_disk_copy belongs to root.system (seen also on NFS on client) with rights "-r-x------". What is missing thar root on client can't execute this file on NFS during "nimadm" run on NIM master?

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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

This is going to sound like a lame suggestion, but simply try it again. We have seen this happen on ocassion and simply trying it again resolved the problem. We have never been able to explain why it happens.
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Originally posted by: purgatory

I've seen this similar problem when dealing with clients that have multiple network interfaces on different vlan's or when using etherchannel and either the network or server side is not setup correctly.
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Originally posted by: Noxy

Hi we had this error and discovered that it was an issue with /etc/exports. NIMADM needs to mount filesystems across to the client being upgraded and so if there an exported filesystem higher up the tree, this will cause the errors we are seeing. I had this in my /etc/exports:-
/NIM/aix61 -ro
So when nim tries to mount any filesystem under this, it fails.

Worth a check.

Cheers,
Noxy
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I had the same problem.
And it was exactly the same issue than Noxy. I had an entry in my /etc/exports file.
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