vxad not installed

[Donny Jekels]

I installed B3929BA - HP OnlineJFS (Advanced VxFS).

However, vxad does not show up in the list of installed device drivers, through SAM -> Kernel Parameters->Devce drivers!

any ideas, what could be wrong, or how to fix this?

Yes I did enter the codeword of the cd.

[S.K. Chan]

What's your OS version ? And what's the output of ..
# grep vxadv /usr/conf/master.d/vxfs

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Donny:

I presume you mean 'vxadv'. Is everything in a 'configured' state?:

# swlist -a state -l fileset|grep -i jfs

Regards!

...JRF...

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Did your system reboot after the installation?.

What is the output of your "swlist |grep -i online"?.

Try /usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep -s /tmp/system
and look for "vxadv" in it.

Try reinstalling this product.

-Sri

[Helen French]

Sometimes this happens due to some Kernel patches installation. I would suggest you to check and install all latest OnlineJFS patches to the system. That will solve the problem.

[Elena Leontieva]

When I had the same problem on HP-UX 11.00 a couple of years ago, I reapplied PHKL_18543 patch, installed PHKL_20410, added the driver to the Kernel and reboot the server.

[Donny Jekels]

swlist -a state -l fileset | grep -i jfs
AdvJournalFS.AJFS-ENG-A-MAN configured
AdvJournalFS.AJFS-JPN-E-MAN configured
AdvJournalFS.AJFS-JPN-S-MAN configured
JournalFS.JFS-ENG-A-MAN configured

[Donny Jekels]

# grep vxadv /usr/conf/master.d/vxfs
* Disabling AdvJournalFS: vxadv vxadvc 10 100 -1 -1
dmapi vxadv vxbase
vxportal vxadv vxbase
* Disabling AdvJournalFS: vxadv vxbase
* Disabling AdvJournalFS: vxadv libvxfs_adv.a
* Disabling AdvJournalFS: vxadv

[Donny Jekels]

# swlist | grep -i online
B3929BA B.11.00 HP OnLineJFS (Advanced VxFS)

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Check if you can find the libvxfs_adv.a on the
disk.

Also try to boot with the vmunix.prev and
install again the OnlineJFS and see that it's
finish the install ok, and made a reboot in the
end.

Caesar

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Donny,

Your /usr/conf/master.d/vxfs file does not seem to be looking right.

Try this also because the kernel filesets do not have the string "jfs".

# swlist -a state -l fileset |grep -i fs\.vxfs

You should get something like this

AdvJournalFS.VXFS-ADV-KRN configured
AdvJournalFS.VXFS-ADV-RUN configured
JournalFS.VXFS-BASE-KRN configured
JournalFS.VXFS-BASE-RUN configured
JournalFS.VXFS-PRG configured

If they look ok, then do ll /usr/conf/lib/libvxfs_adv.a

You should have that file.

Did you have any warninigs while installing it?. Look at your swagent.log for more details.

-Sri

PS: Your point assignment implies that your problem is solved. Do not assign points until your issue is resolved.

[Donny Jekels]

Ceasar, I did that already. Applying patch PHKL_18543 at this time. damn this is large and takes a while to download.

keep watching the thread, will let you know what fixed it.

l8r

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Donny,

Make sure you take a make_tape_recovery tape before you do anything with the patches.

Do not apply the patch PHKL_18543 alone. There are dependencies on this patch and it will put the other patches in corrupted state.

It is better to apply the entire patch bundle. Like QPK and HWE of March 2003.

-Sri

[S.K. Chan]

I had the same problem quite some time ago. If PHKL_18543 (this is part of General Release patch bundle) is installed before OnlineJFS does then it'll disable the vxadv driver. All you need to do to get around this is reinstall that patch again and it should fix the problem.

[Helen French]

As I said before, I would do a search on ITRC for OnlineJFS patches. Apply that and it's dependencies. But if you are going to install PHKL_18543, create recovery tapes before that. Since this patch is one of the very critical and base patch, you need to be very careful with your selections. If you are going to install PHKL_18543, make sure you don't select "reinstall=true" option.

[Donny Jekels]

looks much better now after I installed PHKL_18453.

# swlist -a state -l fileset |grep -i fs\.vxfs
AdvJournalFS.VXFS-ADV-KRN configured
AdvJournalFS.VXFS-ADV-RUN configured
JournalFS.VXFS-BASE-KRN configured
JournalFS.VXFS-BASE-RUN configured
JournalFS.VXFS-PRG configured

I am going to remove it and install the QPK for March 2003.

Thanks all.
Donny

[Donny Jekels]

Sri,

yes I forgot about the point assignment thing.
will remember next time.

thanks for the reminder.
Donny

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Don't remove it. Just install March 2003 bundles on top of it. But before that make sure you prepare your make_tape_recovery tapes.

Also look at the following output before installing the patches. This will give you the status of patches that are not in configured state.

#swlist -l patch -a state |grep -v "^#" |grep -v -i conf

-Sri