johnson@ecovsh.eco.ncsu.edu (Amy Johnson) (12/19/90)
In general, I've had reasonably few problems working with the RS6000s. But now I've got a problem that really has me (and my SE) stumped... I installed 3001 with no problems. Today I tried installing the 3002 update with many problems. I typed "df" to make sure I had enough space...fine. Then I began the update of bos.obj. It fails with lack of /tmp space. So I exit smit and type "df" and "Killed" is returned. When I change the ownership of df to root then df works fine, but it refuses to work when bin owns df. Ok, so I change the ownership of df to root (probably a computer sin...). The update goes fine. But when I log in as a unprivileged user, all my problems return. I get "Killed" when I type env, ps, ls, smit, etc. The only command that works is the df that I had changed the ownership to root. I thought, well maybe this is a fluke. I'll try another update (I've got 7 RS6000s). Same problem.....update dies because of /tmp space and df refuses to work anymore. By the way I have 12 MB of free space in /tmp. Why is the BOS.obj update screwing up my systems??? Software Customer Service won't talk to me, refering me to my SE who can't figure it out at all. If anyone has any ideas...please let me know. If it helps, root runs /bin/csh. (this shouldn't be the problem...) Thanks! Amy <johnson@ecovsh.eco.ncsu.edu> Engineering Computer Operations North Carolina State University
rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com (12/20/90)
I suspect that the lack of space is not in tmp, but in /usr. If you apply without commit, it makes a copy of everything in /usr that is being updated. Id suggest applying the update with "save replace files" = NO. Granted, you wont be able to reject the update, but then again, you wont have to find all this extra space. For the systems that seem to be hosed, Id suggest rejecting the pending updates and starting all over. ********************************************************************* Rudy Chukran | EMAIL: IBM AIX Porting Center | RSCS: CHUKRAN at AUSTIN 11400 Burnet Rd. | AWDnet: rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com Internal ZIP 2830 | internet: chukran@austin.iinus1.ibm.com Austin, Texas 78758 | Voice: 512-838-4674 Tieline: 678-4674 *********************************************************************