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Problem resolved. Booted from CD to maintenace mode, mounted rootvg and ran command sysdumpdev -d /tmp/dump, rebooted machine, now working fine. Bladesman Certified Specialist pSeries AIX System Support.

Hi Any one had this problem before, have a 0549 on LED display, was using graphics card as main console but have been able configure a terminal to S1 and can now see the load information on this unit, other posts say it should ask you if you want to write the dump out or discard, then the syetm...

Thanks for replying HarryNair Yes auth1 for root is SYSTEM, followed procedure in IBM Book Installation and Migration that comes with the software. Done loads of migrations from early 3.5AIX right up to 5.3 but this one's got me stumped. Looking at whats new in 6.1 it may have something to...

Hi All Anyone had this before. Upgraded to AIX 6.1 via migration, after system rebooted and presented me with a login , I cannot login either as root or a user. I know the password file is ok as I can connect via ftp, and rsh which uses the password file for validation. It's as if it's not...

Hi All I am trying to connect to a MS IAS server from my network, my PC sits behind a Netscreen25. I'm using the standard MS VPN connection on my PC to do this, but it keeps comming up with an error 721. I know the connection works as i have another ADSL connection, seperate to my office...

Hi All Any one ever come across this. Have a tape drive installed on the system which has been working fine. Have a power outage on the server which shutsdown the sever, when you reboot the tape drive is in a defined mode and in it place is another cd drive , if you remove the offending cd...

Hi All Any one ever setup a VPN between a Netscreen 25 and a Netpilot plus. I've set up other VPN's with no problem at all, but this one is driving me mad. Just a little note the Netpilot is connected to the internet by a Draytek ADSL Modem/Router with VPN Passthrough set. Any help would be...

Thanks for that but, terminal speed changed to 19200bps and console speed on p520 is set at 19200bps as default. Bladesman Certified Specialist pSeries AIX System Support.

Hi All Has any body come across YYYYYY's being displayed on a serial console. Machine is a p520, oslevel AIX5.2 maint-level 6. This screen was working fine until a system shutdown, it displays startup info correctly and initial login but then just shows the YYY's. You cannot then use the...

Hi Toni Can't remeber any thing specific that i did to resolve the problem. Have you checked the size of the wtmp file and also rebooted your system. Give those a try and if i remember any thing i'll post a note. Cheers bladesman Bladesman Certified Specialist pSeries AIX System Support.

Hi all Any one had this problem before. Have got a VPN between two sites, have an interimtant problem where i cannot see the Unix system all the time while the VPN is up. I have no problem in connecting to the Windows Server on the same network via Terminal services. The gateway for the router...

Hi I am not using HMC on this system, do you think the serial port settings have been set in the system hardware as i think the system was setup originally using HMC. I rebuilt the system just using a dumb terminal connected to the first serial port. Funny thing is that the speed is set to...

Hi all Have a problem with the serial ports on a P520 running AIX 5.2 ML4. Do you know if IBM have restriced the use of these 2 ports as i cannot seem to alter the configurtation of then as i would on any other Pseries I have worked with. I want to change the login on port2 to delay but when...

Hi All Any one seen this error before. $ lp -sdlp2 /etc/profile enq: (FATAL ERROR): Error in msgsnd. Errno = 13. enq: errno = 13: Permission denied This from a normal user. No problems if root user. Operating system is AIX 5.2 maint 02. I Know its a permissions issue but i cannot find the...

Hi All Have been given this task for my sins. Have a customer who has 2 windows 2000 servers on different sites, built by different suppilers, but given the same domain name with different machine names. Both are AD but have not exchanged information due to no link between the sites. Now they...