Firmware upgrade problem

[zali12]

I was upgrading firmware on a IBM machine that is running on AIX 5.3-04. As during that firmware process, system automatically reboot but our system is at a stage where it is not rebooting. Right now system is up and running and its uptime (which is 3 days) shows it did not shutdown during this firmware upgrading process. Now I can see shutdown process still running on server.

root 44058 1 0 16:48:05 - 0:00 /usr/bin/ksh /usr/sbin/shutdown -F -u/var/update_flash_image

I think my mistake is that installed firmware on AIX 5.3 because it is written in Cautions and Important Notes that

ATTENTION: The firmware levels contained in this package MUST be installed before installing AIX 5.3.

Any solution to get out of this problem?

Thanks

 

[bi]

What is the hardware model you were upgrading the firmware on?

 

[zali12]

it is 7044-270

 

[p5wizard]

I'd look for a child process of the shutdown process.

ps -ef|grep 44058

I'm thinking along the lines of a local shutdown script modification that is now trying to run a site-specific shutdown script, and is asking for a user verification.

If you terminate that child process (perhaps after manual shutdown of whatever application it is supposed to shut down), your shutdown/update_flash will go ahead. But your server will shutdown at that point. Better make sure you (or your users) are OK with that.


HTH,

p5wizard