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SWVPD Problem on AIXv4.3.3
sectorseveng:Yes I do agree with you that I should've not been directly playing with those odm files. Thanks for the inputs regarding the '5' key/F5 key combination for booting into service mode. The catch here is that hitting the F5 key during bootup of my 43P Model 150 RS/6000 gets me into a... -
SWVPD Problem on AIXv4.3.3
sectorseveng: the lpp_id for bos.net.tcp.client works out to 77 and using this in odmget -q 'lpp_id=77' inventory or odmget -q 'lpp_id=77' history returns valid data. Guess as suggested by you it seems that the .vc files are corrupt. As far as the files are concerned, it was typically files... -
SWVPD Problem on AIXv4.3.3
Hi sectorseveng, Yup, I understand it's too late now for the backups :) and unfortunately no backups were taken during initial install of the OS. Hmmm, no other option left but to install the entire OS from scratch huh. Well I guess I'll have to do that now. Well the exact cause of corruption... -
SWVPD Problem on AIXv4.3.3
Thanks for the steps, but I don't have any tape devices attached to my system. Is there any other way? Can I take backups to local files and then restore them from there? If so how do I go about doing that? PS: DSMARWAY Yes echo $ODMDIR returns /etc/objrepos. -
SWVPD Problem on AIXv4.3.3
Hi, lppchk -v returns... "A system error occurred while attempting to access the Software Vital Product Data. Use local problem reporting procedures." What I was actually doing is that I was trying to figure out which file on the hard disk SMIT uses to extract information about a... -
SWVPD Problem on AIXv4.3.3
I get the following error when I try to run the lslpp command with any switches allowed. "lslpp: 0504-302 ODM error 5803 occurred trying to read SWVPD data." If I try lslpp -L all I get... "A system error occurred while attempting to access the Software Vital Product Data. Use...
