Eric,
     We had the same problem while at NV 6.0.1, but it turned out to be a
problem with an AIX file set.  Try upgrading to AIX 4.3.3 and hopefully your
problem will go away.

          Regards,
          Bill

Date:      Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:29:34 -0400
From:      "Eric Miner" <edminer AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject: ovstop not completing on NV 6.0.2

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Hi,

NetView for UNIX 6.0.2 on AIX 4.3.1

We recently upgraded our test NetView Server to 6.0.2 and a few times now when 
we do an "ovstop" it hangs and never completes.  When I did a ps -ef|grep OV I 
got this: 

root  4408    1   0   Jul 25      -  0:00 /usr/OV/bin/ntl_reader 0  1 1 1 1000 
/usr/OV/log/nettl
root 14726 15226   0   Jul 25      -  0:50 /usr/OV/bin/nvsecd -O    
root 15226    1   0   Jul 25      -  3:03 /usr/OV/bin/ovspmd        
root 18194 22686   0 08:22:45      -  0:00 /usr/OV/bin/deathtrap -l 21          
                                                            
root 22686 15226  60   Jul 31      - 75:36 /usr/OV/bin/pmd -Au -At -Mu -Mt -m   
                                                           

When we try to kill those processes, /usr/OV/bin/pmd does not terminate.  Even 
with a kill -9.  So we end up having to reboot
the server.

I have a PMR open on this but Tivoli has not seen this reported by other 
customers.  Has anyone of you run into this with 6.0.2?  We have been running 
NetView on AIX for years and have never seen this behavior before 6.0.2.

Thanks,                                                                 
Eric Miner, Travelers Insurance