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From: cs911040@t12.ariel.yorku.ca ()
Subject: INSTALLP difficulties... (help)
Originator: cs911040@t12.ariel.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:33:49 GMT

Hi--

I'm currently trying to use the installp command to create a
software installation package, but I can't seem to get it
to work properly.

My problem, I think, is with the lpp_name file.

My lpp_name file contains :

> 3 R  I {
> PRG.file1 01.01.0000.0000 1 N U En_US Comment1
>
> PRG.file2 01.01.0000.0000 1 N U En_US Comment2
>
> }

I'm using the backup -i command to make backup files on /dev/rfd0.
(I do an ls, piping the filenames into the backup command)
Giving the comand 
	restore -T -f/dev/rfd0
yields
	./lpp_name
	./MyDirs/liblpp.a
	./MyDirs/test/PRG.file1
	./MyDirs/test/PRG.file2

There are no prerequisites for my applications.

I am not installing my files under /usr/lpp as suggested in the 
manual pages, but this shouldn't matter.

My liblpp.a file contains all neccesary files in archive format.

Doing an installp -l only lists the first entry in lpp_name.

When I try to do installp -a PRG.file1 PRG.file2
the PRG.file1 can be found, but PRG.file2 can not be found.
In addition, I get the message that liblpp.a does not exist,
but clearly (from the restore -T command) it is stored on the drive.

Somehow, all but the first entry in lpp_name are lost or can't be found.

Am I doing something wrong with the format of the lpp_name file? 
The backup command?

Does anybody know the solution to this problem? I'm using AIX v. 3.2.
Any help is appreciated.
From: petersen@netmail.austin.ibm.com (Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Printer feedback from PostScript printer using piobe?
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:14:23 GMT
Reply-To: petersen@netmail.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin

In article <1992Apr07.084647.36180@dms.corena.no>, brox@dms.corena.no
(Bjorn P. Brox) writes:
> Sometimes I want to "upload" data/results from a PostScript printer
> using the PostScript operator "print". The PostScript intepreter also
> use print to report error messages.
>
> My question is: How do I get this text back from the printer?
> ...

If the PostScript printer is attached to a serial port on a RISC
System/6000, enter
   qprt  -C  FileName
and the text returned by the printer will be mailed to you.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary Petersen                       petersen@netmail.austin.ibm.com
IBM Austin                                         My opinions only
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Re: WREN III and RS/6000
Summary: Just make it a physical volume and then add filesystems/LVs.
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Chicago, IL
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 05:04:34 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.095059.8256@swift.cs.tcd.ie> fshevlin@swift.cs.tcd.ie writes:
>Hello,
>
>I`m trying to use my CDC WREN III SCSI 150MB  fixed disk with the RS/6000.
>I`ve made it a physical volume with SMIT, and the system can boot up with
>it attached. When I tried to format it with the Diagnostics format option,
>it said run the diagnostics on the disk ... when I did this I got a 
>Protocol Error - SRN 721-116.

Don't bother formatting it -- SCSI disks are already formatted.  Just add
LVs and filesystems to the disk.  If you can make it a physical volume you
should be ok.

If you REALLY have to reformat it for some reason (ie: someone did something
stupid in the past and set an insane interleave, for example) find a PC with
an Adaptec 1542 controller and use the BIOS in there.  

IBM's diags will refuse to talk to a number of third-party drives in some
cases.  I haven't substantiated just what those cases are.  I've also seen
diags decide it wants to talk to a given disk.

One thing to try -- remove the battery from the RS/6000 for 15 - 20 minutes
with the power off, reconnect it and then restart.  This forces the system
to reconfigure all devices from scratch.  WARNING:  This may be hazardous to
your data, although I've never been bit in the tail doing this.  (Hint:  On
the 3xx series machines you get to the battery by flipping open the front
cover).

>Does anybody know if the WREN III (manufactured 1988) uses a different 
>SCSI protocol to the RS/6000 SCSI adapter ?

It shouldn't.

--
Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
Data Line: [+1 312 248-0900] Anon. arch. (nuucp) 00:00-06:00 C[SD]T
Request file: /u/public/sources/DIRECTORY/README for instructions
From: tld5032@bcstec.boeing.com (Terry Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX 3.2 NAMED PATCHES
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:58:31 GMT
Organization: Boeing

Subject: AIX 3.2 NAMED -- The Patch is the mail.

Boeing has reported the named problems discussed herein sometime ago
and now has an emergency patch that seems to fix all of the following
problems with NAMED under AIX 3.2:

 - the looping problem under PMR 1e201
 - the FORMERR problems under PMR 0x065
 - the netstat hang under PMR 1x266

Negative caching is still a bit of a problem (PMR 1x263), though it may
well turn out to be a problem with how "cache servers" are managed.
We are having trouble getting the "cache servers" to flush negative
cache entries.  They don't appear to recognize serial number changes
on the primary servers, so if you ask for a host before it is activated
in the primary/secondary servers, you will get "host not found" until
you restart your NAMED or the default time-to-live for your domain (one
week in our case) expires.

Also, for those of you dig around in your named_dump.db file, the
negative cache entries sometimes do not show 0.0.0.0, but rather some
strange looking IP address.  IBM says (and it appears so) that this is
just a minor bug in the NAMED dump database routine which doesn't always
know how to interprete (print) the negative cache field.  Testing so far
shows it is innoculous.  It will be fixed in a future APAR.

Anyway, a formal APAR should be forthcoming within a week or two from
Austin to address.  We been running on the patch for a week now with no
problems.


Take care
Terry L. Davis


          Boeing Computer Services

          PHONE:  206-957-5325

          EMAIL:  tld5032@atc.boeing.com.

          Tuesday - April 07,1992 - 06:52 AM - PDT



Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 1992 13:02:43 -0400 
From: Robert Andrew Ryan <rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: what is the function _ptrgl() ?
	<1992Apr9.094848.2482@dk.oracle.com>

Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aix: 9-Apr-92 Re: what is the function
_p.. Bjorn Engsig@dk.oracle.c (544)

> The call via the function pointer funcptr will be handled via
> the _ptrgl function.

I believe this is also true of inter-module function calls (ie to a
shared library or dynamically loaded code.)

-Rob Ryan
From: derek@boingo.med.jhu.edu (Derek Ney)
Subject: X11R5 clients on AIX3.2 X11R4 server
Keywords: X11
Organization: The Johns Hopkins Hospital-Body CT Imaging Lab
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:42:38 GMT

I built the X11R5 clients on an RS6000/530 which
we just upgraded to AIX 3.2. For some reason the 
X11R5 clients (such as xterm) cannot connect to
the X11R4 ibm server unless I use the -display hostname:0
option to each program. It seems that clients by default
use the -display :0 or -display unix:0 connection.
Does anyone have any idea of why this is happening. Is
there some R5->R4 backwards compatiblity option available
when compiling R5? I am assuming that using the
-display hostname:0 option would cause the clients to
display slower because it is using a tcp/ip connection
protocol. Please respond via e-mail.

Thanks, Derek Ney
derek@boingo.med.jhu.edu
From: wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Hft Error (3.1.5)
Date: 8 Apr 1992 07:41:21 +0200
Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr
Summary: I did nothing, but it happened...
Keywords: yet another error, one in the already big list...

Well, after disk errors, ent error, streamer error, dsi error,... today I
have the pleasure to discover HFT-ERR:

while (AIX 3.1.5 && true) {
     ERROR LABEL:    HFTERR
     ERROR ID:       857A0C58

     Date/Time:       Apr 07 21:00:30
     Sequence Number: 52059
     Machine Id:      000004353100
     Node Id:         grasp1
     Error Class:     S
     Error Type:      PERM
     Resource Name:   keyboard

     Error Description
     SOFTWARE PROGRAM ERROR

     Probable Causes
     SOFTWARE PROGRAM

     Failure Causes
     SOFTWARE PROGRAM

             Recommended Actions
             IF PROBLEM CONTINUES TO OCCUR REPEATEDLY THEN DO THE FOLLOWING
             CONTACT APPROPRIATE SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE
             REPORT DETAILED DATA

     Detail Data
     DETECTED   FAILED    RC   ERROR LOCATION
      stporta               0  2012  5
} /* endwhile */

[auto reboot, that's really a great option -- good hit IBM]
[other uninteresting stuff such as errlog on deleted]

ERROR LABEL:    ISI_PROC                 [the dsi I used to get were nicer :)]
KERROR ID:       71248BF5

Date/Time:       Apr 07 19:25:42
Sequence Number: 52034
Machine Id:      000004353100
Node Id:         grasp1
Error Class:     S
Error Type:      PERM
Resource Name:   SYSVMM

Error Description
Instruction Storage Interrupt

Probable Causes
SOFTWARE PROGRAM

Failure Causes
SOFTWARE PROGRAM

        Recommended Actions
        IF PROBLEM PERSISTS THEN DO THE FOLLOWING
        CONTACT APPROPRIATE SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Detail Data
ISISR
4000 90B0
ISSR0
007F FFFF
Segment Register, SEGREG
9B37 0274
EXVAL
0000 000E

While I'm awaiting for IBM support to help me, just hoping some net users
already had this? Our current average ruptime is less than one day and
any information that would help us to increase it is really welcome.

Our local users did not do something different from the last weeks!

Our local staff has stopped and powered the station off properly before
restarting it. The error is persisting. They confirm that the keyboard
is unusable yet.

Is that really a software error or should the keyboard be changed?
(would be nice after the disks and a few weeks before the ethernet
scheduled very soon).

-- 
Christophe Wolfhugel   <Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
Organization: TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology.
Date: Friday, 10 Apr 1992 22:24:50 IST
From: Zvika Bar-Deroma <AER7101@TECHNION.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject:    IBM Tel-Aviv branch (was: Re: am loosing console on RS/6000-320)

A while ago, I commented to Marc Auslander's reply concerning "loosing
console on RS/6k", where he suggested to open APAR, with serious flames
about my local support, at Tel-Aviv. It seems that someone(s?) at IBM
were very attentive and passed on my views concerning the support.

As a result I was contacted by my level 2 person, and I had a meeting with
him and his boss (head of the support group at that branch). I hope that the
understandings we reached during the meeting will be kept, for our mutual
interests, and then I will be able to say that the meeting was productive.

A second, undesired effect, was that some people at that branch thought I
was criticising my SE at the "academic division" at IBM Tel-Aviv. This was
NOT my intention (and re-reading my post, I can hardly understand how this
could be concluded). I will say more - at the moment, if I had to choose
between IBM and someone else from whom to purchase the SAME product, if I
knew that IBM's support would be given by him (Dr. Y.G., for those who
know...), this would be enough for me to buy IBM. I think that says it all.

Again, as I previously said, I am glad to know that IBM is paying attention
to what we say on this newsgroup (and in other forums as well), and is
taking the customers opinions quiet seriously.

Regards,
/Zvika

Zvika Bar-Deroma                                  Phone: (+972)-4-292706
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering,                 Fax  : (+972)-4-231848
Technion
Haifa 32000
Israel

BITNET        :   AER7101@TECHNION
Internet      :   AER7101@TECHNION.TECHNION.AC.IL
UUCP          :   ...!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!technion!aer7101
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mbrookov@diana.cair.du.edu (Matthew B. Brookover)
Subject: Re: /etc/backup "lseek" errs on mounted FS.
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 19:00:49 GMT

In article <121942@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> terry@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov (Terry Heidelberg x24154) writes:
>Situation: AIX 3.1.5 on 14 RS/6000 550s with all user filesystems 
>cross-mounted with NFS to allow access to any node's files from 
>any node.   We have read the disclaimer put out by /etc/backup:

>But we have 24-hour service, jobs run for days, weeks even, so we can't 
>afford to take filesystems down (unmount them) for backups (does ANYBODY 
>do that?).

We usually do backups early in the morning when nothing is going on,
but we leave all of the file systems mounted just in case a user wants
something.

>=>Cannot read /dev/ru2 [block -1817308824]: count=4096, got=-1
>=>The lseek call failed.

We got this exact same error message from Maxtor PO12s disk drives
with B18 and B19 firmware.  The problem was fixed by the B22 firmware.
We had the same problem with just about any disk operation,  Not just
backup.  The B18 and B19 firmware had buggy caching code.  Your data
would be trashed if you tried to read more then 2MB quickly.  Smaller
reads from the disks would work perfectly.

We also had a bad SCSI cable that caused similar problems.

>The same inconsistency hazard exists on our other Unix systems 
>(Sun, DEC, etc.) and WE HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH PROBLEMS on these other 
>systems after years of using the same approach.

Same experience here, we backup Ultrix, BSD 4.3 and Sunos with mounted
file systems and never had any problems.

>WE WANT RELIABLE INCREMENTAL BACKUPS ON OUR MOUNTED FILESYSTEMS!
>
>MY QUESTIONS:  
>	has anyone else seen this particular problem?   

Only with buggy firmware and/or bad cables.  (we also had a power supply
flake out in one of the disk cabinets) (These 3 problems all happened
at approximantly the same time, it was murder to debug)

>	Does anyone run incremental backups this way, and never see 
>		this problem?    

Now that I have working disks, cables and power supplys all of my disk
problems are gone.  I upgraded to 3.1.7 about 2 months ago. all of the
problems we had were fixed while the 6000 was running 3.1.5.

>	Does anyone know what is happening to cause the error?   

The firmware bugs caused most of the errors in backup because the disk
was overwriting its internal cache.  Have you looked at errpt?  I might
have some usefull errors to beat IBM with.

>	Are there better ways to do incremental backups using /etc/backup?   

I have not found one yet.

Good luck.


-- 
Matthew B. Brookover
Computing and Information Resources
University of Denver
mbrookov@diana.cair.du.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: berkley@wubs.wustl.edu (Berkley Shands)
Subject: Re: C question involving redeclared functions and aix
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:47:55 GMT

I had this problem (amongst many others). It is fixed by using "cc" over "xlc"
from my makefile ...

CFLAGS = -qrndsngl -I/usr/include/X11 -Dgr_X -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_NO_PROTO -Dusehard -O  -DCLK_TCK=100
LIBS = -s -L/usr/lib/X11 -lXm -lXt -lX11 -lm
CC = cc

	it seems that xlc has some brain dead defaults, and it won't even compile
the IBM supplied X11 .h include files. We went back to cc.

	Berkley
From: Mandyam.Srinivas@ho15.eng.ua.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: X11R5 server problem
Date: 17 Apr 1992 02:25:12 -0500
Organization: University of Alabama
Reply-To: srini@aramis.cs.ua.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Hi everybody,


Sometimes, when I use the R5 server, the screen freezes, and the
only thing I can do is a reboot. I cannot do anything -- 
the mouse and the keyboard get locked. This happens, for example
when I load xfig, and at other times randomly. 

> Network Info
> ------------
> We have a network of 60 RS/6000 (320) machines, with AIX 3.1.5.
> There are 4 subnets, with 6 file-server (520) machines. X11R5
> has been installed on one of the servers now. All the 
> machines have it mounted under /usr/local, and can access
> the R5 clients, and server.

Thanks for any advice.

Srini.
-- 
Mandyam Srinivas            |   " You are young and life is long and 
msriniva@buster.eng.ua.edu  |     There is time to kill today   
                            |     And then one day you find ten years 
                            |          have got behind you
(205) 349-4136              |     No one told you when to run, 
                            |         you missed the starting gun"
        	            |                                 -P.F.
From: giulio@unicorp.sublink.org (Giulio Bertellini)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Public Domain reimplementation of the (AT&T) curses library.
Date: 8 Apr 92 06:44:19 GMT
Organization: Sublink Network

In porting an application package to IBM RISC 6000 and DEC Ultrix 4.2
environments I have found that the functions 

                 curs_set() 

                 isendwin()

are missing.  

I would appreciate indication of possible sources
of equivalent functions.

Thank you very much in advance,

giulio bertellini             (giulio@unicorp.sublink.org)

-- 

Giulio Bertellini         --*--       INTERNET:  giulio@unicorp.sublink.org
                    Via G. Govone, 56 - 20123 Milano, ITALY  +39-2-33608282
From: irikura@enh.nist.gov
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Kermit obtained for RS/6000--thank you for replies
Date: 17 Apr 92 21:24:07 GMT
Organization: NIST

Thanks to those who replied.  The most recent version appears to be the one
at Columbia.

Karl
From: como@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Andrew T. Como)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: booting a diskless sun
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:23:19 GMT
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973

I am trying to boot a sun3/50 from an rs6000. I am not having
much success.

The "arp" does not respond to the ether broadcast with the ethernet
address.Can someone lend a hand. Appreciate any help I can get
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: swap files over NFS
From: marcello@deis16cineca.it (Marcello Dalpasso)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 11:01:16 GMT
Organization: *********************************************************
Originator: marcello@deis16


Can someone tell me if an IBM risc6000 running AXI 3.1
can swap on an NFS-mounted file, like other Unix-station do (see Sun...)

Thanks

-- 
	Marcello Dalpasso (e-mail: marcello@deis16.cineca.it)
	D.E.I.S. - Department of Electronics and Computer Science	
	Viale Risorgimento 2, I - 40136 Bologna, Italy			
	Phone: +39-51-644-3015 (fax: 3073)
-- 
	Marcello Dalpasso (e-mail: marcello@deis16.cineca.it)
	D.E.I.S. - Department of Electronics and Computer Science	
	Viale Risorgimento 2, I - 40136 Bologna, Italy			
	Phone: +39-51-644-3015 (fax: 3073)
From: davide@maverick.cad.mcc.com (David Eckelkamp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RS/6000 subroutine linkage, stack layout and register saving
Keywords: stack layout, registers, assembly language
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:45:03 GMT
Reply-To: eckelkamp@mcc.com
Organization: Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.

I'm stumped and I hope someone can help me.  I'm trying to port the
Scheme->C system by Joel Bartlett at DEC Western Research Lab (decwrl)
to the RS/6000.  I have it compiled, linked and running, mostly.  The
problem I'm having has to do with saving the stack for a scheme
continuation. Simple continuations, ala lisp's catch/throw and C's
setjmp/longjmp, seem to work OK.  The problem is with a continuation
that wants to restore a part of the stack where the restored part
was copied from the stack to a buffer at an earlier time.

The first thing I need to be able to do is to call a routine from C
that returns the stack pointer for the called function.  The current
stack pointer and a saved stack pointer will be used to copy the
relavent parts of the stack each time a continuation is created.  In
assembly language this would not be very difficult, I don't think.
However, I'm not sure I understand the subroutine linkage, stack
layout and register usage enough to get it right.  And I know I don't
know enough about the assembler to get an assembly language routine
right. I have read the "Assembler Language Reference" manaul as well
as parts of the on-line info stuff, so I understand the basic assembler
syntax and a little bit about the stack layout.  

Does anybody have a routine to do this? Can anybody point to a simple
assembly language file some place in the manuals or on-line
somewhere?

My next question has to do with saving registers.  Does setjmp() save
all the registers?  And does longjmp() restore all the registers?  Its
seems they ought to, but I thought I'd ask just in case they don't. :-)

I'll be most appreciative of any answers or suggestions anybody might
have.

Thanks!
____________________________________________________________________________
David Eckelkamp         Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC)
eckelkamp@mcc.com       3500 W. Balcones Center Dr.
(512) 343-0978          Austin,TX 78759
From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Determining versoin [sic]
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:39:49 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Organization: On the Beach, Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, Nederland Antilles
X-Random-Thought: Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty

In article <gdv8=_K00VsiQoRlg2@andrew.cmu.edu> rc4m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Cohen) writes:
>Is there a command which will tell you the version of the operating
>system you are runnning??

Look under the uname command in InfoDestroyer. (or use the manual if
you aren't using 3.1)  You might also try the lpphist command for more
detailed information.
-- 
John F. Haugh II                   | SITUATION WANTED:
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151            |    Will write device drivers, turn status
UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh |    reports in late, and whine incessantly
Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org      |    for food.  Serious inquiries only ;-)
Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 1992 14:25:05 -0400 
From: Adam Stoller <ghoti+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: C question involving redeclared functions and aix
Distribution: na

Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aix: 9-Apr-92 C question involving
redecl.. Shan D Duncan@convex.csd (587)

> #ifndef AUX
> #  ifndef malloc
>       char *malloc();
> #   endif
> #   ifndef calloc
>       char *calloc();
> #   endif



This is WRONG - you can only use '#ifndef' if the value was '#defined'
or '-D' defined -  try something like this (it ain't great, but...):

#if defined( __STDC__)||defined(_POSIX_SOURCE)||defined(_IBMR2)
#define REASONABLE_PROTOTYPES
#endif
#ifndef REASONABLE_PROTOTYPES
#ifndef AUX
#	ifndef malloc
[...]
#endif /* AUX */
#endif /* reasonable prototypes */

There's tons and tons of code out there that is written extremely poorly
for portability - have fun.

--fish