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From: matt@giskard.austin.ibm.com (Matthew S. Cronk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: HELP ME!
Keywords: RS/6000,Installation
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:04:04 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <1992Aug25.234018.4748@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> ccvj@misty.latrobe.edu.au (Vicki Jordan) writes:
>In article <eoq.28.0@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu> you write:
>>BUT once it came up with the message: Multi-User Initialization complete!
>>Nothing else came up. 

This message is displayed at the end of the /etc/rc script.  The /etc/rc.tcpip
script is invoked after this.
Were you installing 3.1 or 3.2?  Was this a "clean" install, or a
"preservation" install?

>I think you have hit the same problem we did - does it stop with a
>steady number (I don't remember exactly - 578?)

If the message "Multi-User initialization complete" has been displayed,
then the LED's have already been cleared, and the filesystems have been
successfully mounted.

>You will have to do the following:
>- boot to maintenance mode
>- getrootfs hdisk0 sh   (if your boot logical volume spans more than one
>                         disk - getrootfs hdisk0 hdisk2 ....)

invoking getrootfs with multiple hdisk args does not change the
behaviour of the script, except for an error message during execution.

> (evidently /etc/continue is gone in 3.2)

replaced by getrootfs because continue is a shell builtin

>- vi /etc/filesystems
> for /, /usr and /var add the stanza "type = bootfs"

If you invoke "getrootfs hdisk0 sh", then the shell is invoked before the
filesystems are mounted, and vi is not available, and the /etc/filesystems
is in the ramfs, which is not preserved between boots.

Matt

disclaimer: These are my opinions and do not represent IBM opinions, or
those of my employer, neighbor, mailperson, brother-in-law, blah, blah, ...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell)
Subject: Re: AIX malloc and fault tolerance
Originator: tmcconne@sedona
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:34:32 GMT


In article <1992Sep3.135156.9166@medtron.medtronic.com>, sh0001@israel (Scott Hansohn) writes:
> In AIX, a nonzero return from malloc does not guarantee that the
> memory requested has been allocated to the process.  Neither does
> a successful launch of a program containing a large static buffer
> guarantee that the buffer may be fully usable.
>

  You might also note that "malloc(0)" currently returns "0", although it is not
guarenteed to do this in the future. This is what breaks the current version of
g++ (version 2.2.2) if you call new[] with a size of 0.

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
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From: karell@cs.Helsinki.FI (Esa Karell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: dbx problems with fortran common vars
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:53:54 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

Env: xlfcmp.obj (02.02.0100.0003)
     bos.obj (03.02.0000.0000)

Sometimes (yeah, don't you just love exact descriptions)
dbx barfs out "-NaNQ" for a very legal, properly initialised
common var. Has anyone else experienced problems in printing
out common vars' values in dbx? Bug?

Esa


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From: pa@curly.appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Need help building Taylor UUCP on AIX 3.2
Keywords: Taylor-uucp AIX
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:47:52 GMT
Organization: Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA

In <BtrqCz.p5r@icsbelf.uucp> ianm@icsbelf.uucp (Ian Moran) writes:

>If it is any consolation, I also have been unable to sucessfully build
>Taylor-uucp on AIX 3.1. Like yourself, everything compiles OK but all
>the executables core dump. I would be very interested to hear of any
>follow up to this!

I mailed a 3.1 patch to John.  We'll see how he manages.

Things aren't perfect:  I get reliable connections only if I enable
chat debugging.  Also, I couldn't get tstuu and uucp-over-TCP to work
(but I didn't insist).  Bottom line: Taylor lets me enlarge the
g-protocol windows for higher throughput.

The most troubling change I had to make involved several strings

      const char *zblahblah= NULL;

that weren't initialized to NULL!  All the executables bombed trying to
open garbage paths.  I fixed the problem by sprinkling explicit
assignment to NULL at the beginning of the relevant functions.  A
compiler bug?  Well, I ain't reporting it.  So there.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: color adpt for sale
Date: 27 Aug 92 11:41:30 EST
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Distribution: comp
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From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: High-speed modem at built-in serial port (RS/6000)
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:43:15 GMT
Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.com
Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5


In article <stritzi.714925276@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> (comp.unix.aix), stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger) writes:
> I just connected two different modems (ZyXEL 1496E and Trailblazer T2000) to
> an RS520 and encountered the following problems:
> 
> 1. Character loss
> When connecting the modem at 9600 or 19200 Bits/s, I get lots of character
> loss. The error-report tells me to reduce load (isn't too high) or choose a
> lower baud rate (9600 isn't too high, either). Is this normal?
> By the way, I've set up the modems for hardware handshaking, so why doesn't
> the RS/6000 just tell the modem to stop sending when it can't take the stuff
> from the line?

I have no direct experience, but my encounters with this problem on other
systems always turned out to be me just *thinking* I had hardware handshaking
set up -- but one side or the other wasn't actually configured for it. I
suspect in your case that either the RS/6000 isn't configured for hardware
handshaking (use smit to check the line attributes), or the cable isn't
carrying the handshaking signals correctly (remember that you do NOT use
the same cable as you would to connect an ascii workstation -- you need
a straight-through cable).

  -mel

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From: tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson)
Subject: Re: More on aXe 
Keywords: aXe
Organization: Wayne State Univ.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:53:43 GMT

jhardin@data.tamu.edu (James Hardin) writes:

>  I asked earlier for some help on getting aXe compiled under 
>aix 3.2.1 and several people wrote and told me to comment out the
>line: #define R5 and to try again. One person suggested that 
>after he had done that the program compiled, but core dumped on
>invocation. Well, that is what is happening to me. The program
>has a segmentation fault in the 

>  CopyShowMenuChildren()

>routine in the AxeEditor.c file. 

I'm seeing the same problem. What I saw was that the variable 
CLASS(show_menu), which is the first parameter in CopyShowMenuChildren(),
is set to zero. Zero is the default value for CLASS(show_menu), but it's
also one of the possible return values from 

   CLASS(show_menu) = 
        MakeMenu(showButton, CLASS(menu_parent), MakeShowMenu, False)

MakeMenu() is called to set CLASS(show_menu) during the init of aXe. My 
c programming is very poor, and the routine MakeMenu() is a recursive 
subroutine, which makes the problem of debugging aXe that much harder for 
me. I'm hoping that with this extra information, that some c expert will 
be able to find the bug within MakeMenu(), or one of the routines MakeMenu()
calls.
From: ahsu@akira.anatomy.upenn.edu (Kaneda-Akira's Defender)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Using the pcsim PC simulator...
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:37:49 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hi there, does anyone out there have any experience with the pcsim
package?  I don't seem to be able to get anything other than a window
running IBM BASIC.  How do I "boot" the simulator so that I get a DOS
prompt?

Thanks for any help.

--> Andrew Hsu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: horst@faui63.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Horst Luehrsen)
Subject: Where's the FAQ List?
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:27:30 GMT

Where can the Frequently Asked Questions List be found?

Has anyone written a summary of AIX 3.1 to 3.2 upgrade Problems?

	Horst Luehrsen

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From: konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Miracom Courier V32bis & RS6000
Date: 2 Sep 92 03:42:51 GMT
Organization: IBM AIX Porting Center, Austin

In article <BrFstL.73z@icsbelf.uucp> ianm@icsbelf.uucp (Ian Moran) writes:
>
>I am attempting to set a DTE of 38400 on an RS6000 connected to the above
>modem. This is necessary in order to establish a V32bis connection.
>Even though SMIT tells me that indeed the speed is 38400, the Courier
>reports a connection speed of 9600. Any ideas anyone?
>
>Ian Moran

Perhaps the "connection speed" is independent of the DTE-to-DCE interface
speed.  If you went through SMIT and selected 38400, you probably have
38400 from the RISC/6000...  I suspect the 9600 baud you are seeing 
reflects the modem-to-modem speed that was negociated between the modems
when you dialed in/out.  Use "stty" to check; from another screen issue:

  stty -a < /dev/tty7      (if tty7 is the port in question)

You'll see the tty's port speed in the top line...

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: fuzzy@obelix.ncs.mainz.ibm.com (Thomas Braunbeck/131000)
Subject: Re: AIX malloc and fault tolerance
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 19:24:28 GMT
Reply-To: braunbec@Mainz.IBM.de
Organization: IBM Germany, AIX Support Germany

In article <1992Sep4.044125.861@portal.hq.videocart.com>, kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
|> You don't, other than to allow it to die.  Oh, you had something >important<
|> in that program going on, like perhaps a financial transaction?  Too bad --
|> that SIGKILL you just received can't be caught!  So much for reliable
|> software.
|>
Only processe that do not have a signal handler for the SIGDANGER signal
will get the SIGKILL.
It it possible to suspend your process if the system sends the
SIGDANGER until other processes release paging space.
Use the psdanger subroutine to check the amount of free paging space.



From General Concepts and Procedures, GC23-2202-02, page17-2:
Fri Sep  4 21:09:06 MEZ 1992 Copyright (c) 1991 IBM Corporation     Page 1


Understanding Paging Space Allocation Policies
The amount of paging space required depends on the type of activities
performed on the system.  If paging space runs low, processes may be
lost, and if paging space runs out, the system may panic.  When a paging
space low condition is detected, additional paging space should be
defined.

The system monitors the number of free paging space blocks and detects
when a paging space shortage condition exists.  When the number of free
paging space blocks falls below a threshold known as the paging space
warning level, the system informs all processes (except kprocs) of this
condition by sending the SIGDANGER signal.  If the shortage continues
and falls below a second threshold known as the paging space kill level,
the system sends the SIGKILL signal to processes that are the major
users of paging space and that do not have a signal handler for the
SIGDANGER signal (the default action for the SIGDANGER signal is to
ignore the signal).  The system continues sending SIGKILL signals until
the number of free paging space blocks is above the paging space kill
level.

Processes that dynamically allocate memory can ensure that sufficient
paging space exists by monitoring the paging space levels with the
psdanger subroutine or by using special allocation routines (see the
psmalloc.c file for sample code which uses memory allocation routines
that allocate paging space at memory allocation time).  Processes can
keep from getting ended when the paging space kill level is reached by
defining a signal handler for the SIGDANGER signal and by releasing
memory and paging space resources allocated in their data and stack
areas and in shared memory segments, using the disclaim subroutine.
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From: bselling@liszt.helios.nd.edu (brian selling)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Problems with SLIP still...
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:50:11 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame


I am still having some troubles with slip.  For one thing the slip route
keeps disappearing from the routing table.  This makes it difficult to
call a host that is permanently set up with a slip interface.  Has any
one else run into a disappearing slip route and perhaps found a decent 
workaround?


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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Xdvi on AIX 3.2
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:33:16 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization


In article <baron.715459913@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu>
baron@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Eddie Baron) writes:
>
>	  cc -c -g -ma -I/usr/lpp/X11/include -DMSBITFIRST -DBMSHORT -DBUTTONS xdvi.c
> "xdvi.c", line 34.0: 1506-167 (W) String literal is longer than target array dv_c. Literal is truncated on the right.
>
>
>	  cc -o xdvi xdvi.o dvi_init.o dvi_draw.o gf.o pk.o pxl.o pxl_open.o tpic.o -lXaw  -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lm
> 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected:
>		  Symbols in error (followed by references) are
>		  dumped to the load map.
>		  The -bloadmap:<filename> option will create a load map.
> XmuCvtStringToPixmap
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8.

Use `-bnodelcsect'.

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From: ab9j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RS6000 keyboard port broken on motherboard
Date: 25 Aug 92 12:42:35 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

The keyboard on my RS6000 (Powerstation 320) has died.  It does not
receive any power from the cpu (caps lock, num lock, etc. do not light up).
Swapping keyboards and cables did not work, and the fuses are good.  
The IBM people who looked at it said that the motherboard needs 
to be replaced.  The current price for a motherboard is around $9,000,
and of course we are not under maintenance.  I'm hoping we can
install some sort of keyboard option card to by-pass the defective
keyboard port on the motherboard.  Does anyone know if such an
option is available?  I suppose also I could hook a terminal
up through the S1 or S2 tty connections, and the machine is accessable
via telnet/rlogin.

Any help/advice greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

William Martin
Cornell University
martin@orie.cornell.edu
From: MCOG@CHVM1.VNET.IBM.COM ("Michael A. Coggins")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: What is a Matrox card?
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:25:21 GMT
X-Unparsable-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 10:24:35 CET

Mark,  A matrox card is a 1280x1024 graphics adapter that requires
a standard RGB type display capable of 1280x1024 (IBM 6091 for example).

The driver will work on AIX 2.2.1 and runs with the X11R3??? server
shipped with AIX 2.2.1 with some updates.  I'll be out of my office
for the next week, but I can send you (or anyone else that needs it)
the diskettes required to get this adapter going in their RT.  If
you want to get it running with X11R4 or X11R5, good luck, and I'll
be happy to help with a few source code samples.

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From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Device sharing through NFS
Date: 26 Aug 92 05:30:00 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

lah@unh.edu (Lance A. Hartford) writes:

>	SMIT has an option for allowing shared device access through NFS
>mount points. How do I take advantage of this? If I mount /dev from a
>server and try to access the devices in that directory, I get this
>error:

>There is a request to a device or address that does not exist. 

u can't do that if u're tryin 2 do what it sounds like u're thinking u can do

if the client has a device connected, u can have the device file actually
reside on a server and still use the device on the client.  this is
mainly useful in the diskless case

but if u're trying to have several clients use the same printer or whatever
on the server via nfs, bzzzzzzzzzt

the nfs protocol doesn't do that.  statelessness and all that rot
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rick@groo.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran)
Subject: Re: HELP: how to kill a stopped 'tar' job?
Keywords: 8mm Tape RS/6000
Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:26:41 GMT

In article <Sep01.200622.29551@engr.washington.edu>, eliot@stalfos.engr.washington.edu (eliot) writes:
|> 
|> If you are on 3.2.0, it is a bug in the tape device driver.  Call software
|> support and get a fix.  I did, and everything's fine now.
|> 
|> 
|> eliot

As near as one can determine from Defect Support's APAR descriptions, this
appears to be IX21746.

Unfortunately, determining what PTF to order to obtain a particular APAR
seems to be a monumental task.  I'm waiting expectantly.

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From: baron@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Eddie Baron)
Subject: Xdvi on AIX 3.2
Originator: usenet@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:51:53 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Well I got TeX3.14 to compile
(the trick was to change the compile flags to -ma -g and dump the -O)

now I am working on xdvi and this is what I get:

I don't understand this since -lXmu is on the link line and libXmu.a is 
in /usr/lib ? thanks for the help in advance
 -- ed baron

	cc -c -g -ma -I/usr/lpp/X11/include -DMSBITFIRST -DBMSHORT -DBUTTONS xdvi.c
"xdvi.c", line 34.0: 1506-167 (W) String literal is longer than target array dv_c. Literal is truncated on the right.


	cc -o xdvi xdvi.o dvi_init.o dvi_draw.o gf.o pk.o pxl.o pxl_open.o tpic.o -lXaw  -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lm
0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected:
		 Symbols in error (followed by references) are
		 dumped to the load map.
		 The -bloadmap:<filename> option will create a load map.
XmuCvtStringToPixmap
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8.

Make Quitting.



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From: marke@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark W. Easter)
Subject: Re: sendmail and NIS managed aliases problem
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:12:00 GMT
	<Aug25.214914.26624@cdsac.uucp> <1992Aug26.032028.28597@csi.on.ca>
Organization: FlightSafety-SSD, Tulsa, OK, USA

>In article <1992Aug26.032028.28597@csi.on.ca> mcr@csi.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes:
>
>     3.1 NIS also ``forgets'' to consult the local password file. If an
>   NIS server is not available, (like, because the network isn't there or
>   the interface becomes foobar for some reason) then you can't login at
>   all. Boot from tape. Moral: be very wary about letting 3.1.x machines
>   run ypbind...

You should be able to overcome this by making the 3.1.x machine a
client of itself.

>   >Token for		AIX		from O'Reilly & Assoc
>   >				
>   >passwd			+::0:0::	+:*:0:0:::
>   >group			+:		+:*:*
>   >aliases			<none>		+

I believe the answer has to do with security and not just NIS.
Placing "+:" or "+::" on many systems means that anyone can sign in to
root as "+" with no password.
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From: keith@dickens.com (Keith Devlin)
Subject: Lisp interpreter availability...
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:46:47 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

Does anyone know of a public domain Lisp interpreter available for 
the 6000?  Does not even have to be a Lisp compiler, just an interpreter.

Thanks,
Keith Devlin.
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