Re: ADSM on Solaris 7?

Christian,

Following is an email from my Unix administrator:

[I ran the modinfo command, and there was no vxfs.  It returned nothing.
The error that we are getting is when we do a pkgchk, it returns
"WARNING:  Package <SUNW***> is installed but empty."  This is the
message for most of the packages in the /var/sadm/pkg
directory.  We have checked the pkgchk command to make sure it wasn't
the /usr/sbin/pkgchk. I did a truss on the package SUNWabe, I'll attach
the file.  The Sun support said that it looks like the ADSM did
something, but it was inconclusive.]

Shortly after this, the Unix administrator worked with Sun support
somemore and found the \var\sadm\install\contents file had been either
damaged or corrupted. Sun thinks it was from the ADSM install, possibly
the Veritas support package. Sun's recommendation is to reload the OS
(Ouch!).

Do you think it's possibly the HSM component could do this to the OS if
VxFS were not actually installed?

Also, would you like a copy of the truss? I didn't want to attach it to
the listserv.

Thanks,

Ed Janowiak

Christian Bolik wrote:
>
> Ed,
>
> the HSM component of the ADSM client gets
> installed only if it is selected for installation,
> and VxFS is installed on the Solaris machine.
> This is checked by the command
> "/usr/sbin/modinfo | grep vxfs".  In addition,
> the VxFS version needs to be 3.2.4 or 3.2.5.
>
> I don't understand what you mean by "the result
> was the complete removal of all packages from the
> system."  Did this happen during the course of the
> ADSM client installation?  Some more details would
> be helpful.
>
> >Date:    Thu, 7 Jan 1999 06:46:32 -0700
> >From:    Ed Janowiak <Janowiak AT ENVISIONET DOT NET>
> >Subject: Re: ADSM on Solaris 7?
> >
> >We had some trouble with the ADSM client on a Solaris 2.6 server.
> >
> >I am not the sysadmin of the Unix server. We are not using the Veritas
> >file system. However, the sysadmin installed the package for the Veritas
> >file system along with the client and API's. I believe this was
> >IBMadsm-h, but I'm not sure. Anyway, the result was the complete removal
> >of all packages from the system.
> >
> >Has this ever happened to anyone? Why did this happen?
> >
> >-Ed
>
> Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gr|_en,
>
> Christian Bolik
> IBM SM IT Software Development ADSM, Mainz