[nv-l] Warning of a gotcha on the upgrade to 7.1.4, for the record

[Leslie Clark <lclark@us.ibm.com>]

It must be that all of you did this
right the first time, since I saw no mention of it in the archives (well,
Ray W. may have hit it :), but for the record: 

We used to have to worry about the ulimit
settings in /etc/security/limits, but since /etc/netnmrc checks and sets
them for us, I have not been worrying about them lately. In fact, at my
current customer I don't even have read access to that file.  However,
there is a common mistake in /etc/security/limits that will cause the upgrade
to fail. If you have a setting in there that sets 'nofiles' to '-1' for
root, it should be changed to something less than or equal to 32767. The
'-1' does not actually mean 'unlimited', it means 65535 on a 32-bit system,
much larger than the system limit for file descriptors, which apparently
is 32767. In AIX V4 that number was 2000. 

The symptom of the failure is that all
of the old Netview entries in /etc/services are deleted during the upgrade
but not replaced. So no daemons will start, beginning with nvlockd. The
failure message in /tmp/NVS_714_NVCONF_after.error says:
 Running customize script for
fileset OVMIN.
    Making links....
  Running customize script for
fileset OVWIN.
ERROR:     Customize script
for fileset OVWIN exited with code 2.
ERR_cfgbf_001

There is an item about this in the Knowledge
Base, but you won't find it by searching on the symptoms. You have to know
the cause. Go figure. We've suggested additional search words on that feedback
screen they give you in the Knowledge Base. We'll see if it works. And
now this will be in the listserver archives as well. 

Cordially,

Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit