Hi,

in January it was reported, that Linux clients caused instability
to the ADSM server.

"Peter Jodda" wrote as conclusion:

>The problem is: one client command causes a buffer overrun, which
>leads to a server crash. This problem is generaly fixed with the
>ptf-3 clients, but Linux is a ptf-1.
>The verb, that crashes the server, contains the OS version and
>revision. So a kernel 2.0.34 is OK, while 2.1.131 is one byte to long.
>To solve this problem use a non-hacker linux version, or patch the
>version number, this it is shorter than 7 chars (uname -r).

OK, but this can't be the whole story. Today our Server crashed in the
following configuration:

Server: ADSM 3.1.1.5 on AIX 4.2.1

Client Version:  Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.1
Client OS Level: Linux RH 6.0, Kernel Version 2.2.7 or 2.2.5-15
                                              ^^^^^ < 7 char's !!

and it is a non-hacker linux version.

/var/log/dsmserv.err  shows:

05/06/1999 03:22:58  ANR7834S GPR  0: 0x00000024,   1: 0x3c4331dc,   2: 
0xf0275c1c,   3: 0x00d80982
05/06/1999 03:22:58  ANR7834S GPR  4: 0x00000002,   5: 0x00000000,   6: 
0x00000001,   7: 0x0ca4b414
05/06/1999 03:22:58  ANR7834S GPR  8: 0x30f07408,   9: 0x58000000,  10: 
0x00808080,  11: 0x7f7f7f7f
05/06/1999 03:22:58  ANR7834S GPR 12: 0x00d80982,  13: 0x00000000,  14: 
0x103e3b48,  15: 0x3bd807b8
05/06/1999 03:22:58  ANR7834S GPR 16: 0x00000000,  17: 0x3b87cec8,  18: 
0x30054b00,  19: 0x00000016
05/06/1999 03:22:58  ANR7834S GPR 20: 0x3bd80868,  21: 0x3bd8083c,  22: 
0x3bd80941,  23: 0x00000080
05/06/1999 03:22:58  ANR7834S GPR 24: 0x00000005,  25: 0x3003c280,  26: 
0x3c4341d4,  27: 0x00000001
05/06/1999 03:22:58  ANR7834S GPR 28: 0x30054b00,  29: 0x3bd80920,  30: 
0x3bd80941,  31: 0x00d80982
05/06/1999 03:22:58  ANR7834S IAR: 0xd0242800, LR: 0x10147aec,  CONTEXT: 
0x3c432e50

Is there any fix - to either server or client - known ? We are facing a
lot of linux clients to upgrade...

Aron
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