Dear ADSM managers,

As a new ADSM customer I just installed ADSM 2.1 on an AIX 4.1.4 server.
I did this in a SMIT non-graphics window, and the installation failed
because it couldn't open the X display.

Lesson No. 1: DON'T install ADSM in a non-graphics SMIT window.
              (would be nice if the install would abort in this case).

After the failed install, I could no longer access CD-ROM filesystems
(cdrfs) !!!

SU :/etc> mount /cdrom
mount: 0506-318 cdrfs is not a known vfs type for object /dev/cd0.

After much panic I discovered that the file /etc/vfs had been truncated
to zero size !  Restoring this file from another AIX system saved my day !

Lesson No. 2: ADSM install may corrupt your system.  Make sure that
              you keep a backup copy of the file /etc/vfs.

Has anyone else experienced this ?  IBM surely ought to address these
two problems, which I would consider as pretty serious bugs in the
ADSM installation code.

Best regards,
Ole H. Nielsen
Physics Dept.
Technical University of Denmark

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