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<p class="MsoNormal">Just to close the loop on this, this is a bug in the RHEL7.5 first shipped alt kernel for the P9 systems. Patching to a later kernel errata package fixed the issues. I’ve confirmed that upgrading and re-running the installer works fine.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to Julian who contacted me off-list about this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org> on behalf of Simon Thompson <S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 27 July 2018 at 17:06<br>
<b>To: </b>"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Power9 / GPFS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># uname -a<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Linux localhost.localdomain 4.14.0-49.el7a.ppc64le #1 SMP Wed Mar 14 13:58:40 UTC 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Its literally out of the box …<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org> on behalf of "gcorneau@us.ibm.com" <gcorneau@us.ibm.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 27 July 2018 at 17:03<br>
<b>To: </b>"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Power9 / GPFS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Just curious, do you have the zStream1 patches installed?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"># uname -a</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Liberation Sans"">Linux ac922a.pvw.ibm.com 4.14.0-49.2.2.el7a.ppc64le #1 SMP Fri Apr 27 15:37:52 UTC 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux</span><br>
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Glen Corneau<br>
Cognitive Systems</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Washington Systems Center<br>
gcorneau@us.ibm.com</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">From: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Simon Thompson <S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk></span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">To: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Date: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">07/27/2018 10:19 AM</span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Subject: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">[gpfsug-discuss] Power9 / GPFS</span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Sent by: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">I feel like I must be doing something stupid here but …</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">We’re trying to install GPFS onto some Power 9 AI systems we’ve just got…</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">So from Fix central, we download “Spectrum_Scale_Data_Management-5.0.1.1-ppc64LE-Linux-install”, however we are failing to unpack the file:</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">./Spectrum_Scale_Data_Management-5.0.1.1-ppc64LE-Linux-install --dir 5.0.1.1 --text-only</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Extracting License Acceptance Process Tool to 5.0.1.1 ...</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">tail -n +620 ./Spectrum_Scale_Data_Management-5.0.1.1-ppc64LE-Linux-install | tar -C 5.0.1.1 -xvz --exclude=installer --exclude=*_rpms --exclude=*rpm --exclude=*tgz --exclude=*deb 1> /dev/null</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Installing JRE ...</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">If directory 5.0.1.1 has been created or was previously created during another extraction,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">.rpm, .deb, and repository related files in it (if there were) will be removed to avoid conflicts with the ones being extracted.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">tail -n +620 ./Spectrum_Scale_Data_Management-5.0.1.1-ppc64LE-Linux-install | tar -C 5.0.1.1 --wildcards -xvz ibm-java*tgz 1> /dev/null</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">tar -C 5.0.1.1/ -xzf 5.0.1.1/ibm-java*tgz</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Invoking License Acceptance Process Tool ...</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">5.0.1.1/ibm-java-ppc64le-80/jre/bin/java -cp 5.0.1.1/LAP_HOME/LAPApp.jar com.ibm.lex.lapapp.LAP -l 5.0.1.1/LA_HOME -m 5.0.1.1 -s 5.0.1.1 -text_only</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Unhandled exception</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Type=Segmentation error vmState=0xffffffff</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">J9Generic_Signal_Number=00000004 Signal_Number=0000000b Error_Value=00000000 Signal_Code=00000001</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Handler1=00007FFFB194FC80 Handler2=00007FFFB176EA40</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">R0=00007FFFB176A0E8 R1=00007FFFB23AC5D0 R2=00007FFFB2737400 R3=0000000000000000</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">R4=00007FFFB17D2AA4 R5=0000000000000006 R6=0000000000000000 R7=00007FFFAC12A3C0</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">This looks like the java runtime is failing during the license approval status.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">First off, can someone confirm that “Spectrum_Scale_Data_Management-5.0.1.1-ppc64LE-Linux-install” is indeed the correct package we are downloading for Power9, and then any tips on how to extract the packages.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">These systems are running the IBM factory shipped install of RedHat 7.5.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thanks</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Simon</span><br>
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