Re: Lost contact with partition after applying latest CUME and groups -- MIDRANGE-L

Okee Dokee...

Further investigation reveals that I had a drive fault back in July but it is in the storage module. If I remember correctly, and I can't say I do, the JS12 had a mirrored set of drives in the blade itself and then I think I mirrored a set of drives in the storage module for the OS so I am hoping that replacing the drive in the storage module will get me close to what I need. I just can't remember how things are configured and NOW the IVM isn't reporting in (but I have seen that happen before). The 7.1 partition and Linux are still running so I am hopeful a drive replacement will get things going. I haven't replaced a mirrored drive before although I have replaced a single drive in a RAID 5 set. More adventures await.

I would have thought that a mirrored set would have started up but been in a degraded state. Right now I am trying to figure out what drives I have in the Storage Module so I can order a few...thought I had some spares but can't seem to locate them....

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On 1/6/2018 2:12 PM, DrFranken wrote:

Loss of disks for sure. The A6xx was probably incrementing through the number of disks you had.

In any case that's also what the 4158 says only now it's complaining that it cannot find the load source.

Personally I think all your stuff is there, albeit a tad upset with you for not doing a PWRDWNSYS neatly. It'll survive.

You DO need to check carefully the connections from the i Partitioni to the VIO and assure all the mappings and such are correct. Your problem lies within.

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On 1/6/2018 12:49 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:

My usual seat of the pants update procedure probably coming back to haunt me.....

Ordered the latest CUME and Groups for my 7.2 partition, built the image catalog and applied it with the option to re-IPL. As usual I didn't bother to read any MTU's (I can hear Rob Berendt groaning...) and the apply and re-IPL went smoothly. All was well yesterday afternoon, the only thing I did was to start SSHD and update my LetsEncrypt certificate and change supported ciphers due to the return of the Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat (ROBOT). No problem. All was well.

Checked on a couple of things this morning and the 7.2 partition was no longer online. This is a JS12 blade with a Power 6. The IVM is up, the 7.1 partition is up, the Linux partition is up but the IBM i console wouldn't connect and there was an A6XX0255 error on the partition in the IVM. So, I did what any intrepid developer would do: I bounced the partition.

The error I see now is:

Reference code:    B2004158 LP=00002
Description:    System log entry only, no service action required
Time stamp (UTC):    1/6/18 4:21:59 PM
Word 2:    03B00000
Word 3:    000000FF
Word 4:    00000000
Word 5:    30000002
Word 6:    000300FF
Word 7:    00000001
Word 8:    00007F00
Word 9:    00000000
FRU callout:

A couple of posts and references point to a load source issue. It isn't hardware (I don't think) since all the other operational partitions use the same hardware (disks, etc) that have been virtualized for the partitions. So I am guessing that there was something in an MTU that I failed to read that is causing the issue. With no console or virtual control panel so getting this guy back on his legs will be a little tricky. The good news is that the IVM allows me to change IPL modes and load source adapters so hopefully there will be a way to boot this guy....

Ideas? The "good" news is that this is a developer machine so if I have to restore, I will (painful as that may be...)