Have installed Firefox 1.5.0.12 off the IBM supplied CD.
Would now like to install a mail addon and it would appear Thunderbird is
the one for Firefox.
Searched the IBM web site for a Thunderbird package similar to the Firefox
CD ie basic program plus needed dependicies, with no luck.

Found this site http://www.linkitup.de/ForAIX/Thunderbird/ and downloaded
" Thunderbird for AIX Optimised for Power "
file
" thunderbird-1.5.0.4.en-US.aix4.3.3.0-rs6000-gtk1.tar.bz2 "
which I presume is the correct version to go with Firefox 1.5.0.12.

Am confused about the correct dependencies.
The dependencies mentioned on http://www.linkitup.de/ForAIX/Firefox/ seem to
be for that version of Firefox and not Thunderbird, especially the lines
about the AIX 6.1 patch.

Would appreciate clarification on the dependencies.

Thanks

Hi,

When I try to create a vg I get the following error
any ideas ?
Thanks in advance

AIX 5.2

#mkvg -f -y vg100 hdiskpower82
vg100
PV Status: hdiskpower82 005f929aff910a6a PVINVG
0516-021 varyonvg: The varyonvg failed because the volume group's
major number was already used by another device.
0516-862 mkvg: Unable to create volume group.

Hello,
I have a p5 series 9131-52A. I do not have an HMC. The server has been
partitioned for a single AIX partition and it has no OS installed. I am
trying to install AIX remotely, using ASMI. Does anyone know if this is
possible? I cannot seem to find a console interface.

Thanks in advance.

I have a p570 that was at AIX 5.3 ML 3. I needed to upgrade to 5.3 TL6
service pack 3 for a software system that my company has written. I
downloaded the 5300-06 TL fix pack the SP3 fixpack. I performed a
smitty update_all and everything seemd to go well (only 1 failure on a
package that is not installed). Rebooted the system, when it came back
up I did an:
oslevel -s
and it came back with:
5300-05-CSP-000.

Why didn't it go all the way to 5300-06-03-xxxx?
and how to I get the system to TL 6

Hi
I have a software product which is right now built using version
6 of xlC. We are considering upgrading to xlC version 9, however my
product uses lots of third party libraries. I need to know if my
product can continue to work with third party binaries built using xlC
version 6 or they also need to upgrade?

Second thing I need to know is that if some of my binaries (shared
libraries) are being used by other softwares then can they use
binaries built using xlC 9 with xlC version 6?

Also do the answers change if instead of moving to version 9 we
upgrade to version 8?

Any information or pointers would be helpful!

Thanks
Dinesh

whats the command to tell if the AIX 5.3 is 32-bit or 64-bit? I tried
oslevel and it says 5.3.0.0

thanks.

Hi,

I have an AIX system at 5.3 ML 07. I was noticing that the swap space
keeps going lower on my system when doing some tests. However, the
lower swap space did not seem to affect anything. Therefore, I was
suspecting that swap space was utilized to page out something from
main memory to make room and the pages swapped is never brought back
to memory if it was not required anymore. To confirm this, I wrote a
simple program that sleeps for 15mts and I ran about 6000 copies of
the same. What I noticed is the following:

At the start of the test, total swap was 512MB and free was 485MB.
After running 6000 copies, swap went below 100MB and after the
programs exited, came back to 377MB.
Ran the above step many time and after many tries, the swap comes back
to 346MB when the test programs exited.

Are there any tools, that I could use to verify that the swap is now
used to hold some pages of running programs that are not accessed
anymore?

Thank you

Varghese Devassy

After a lot of hassles with getting g++ 4.2.3 running on AIX 5.3 I'm ready
with the next problem. Is it just me or is there a trend with these bugs on
AIX!? :-)

Now I'm trying to get some unittest code working more specifically
http://unittest-cpp.sourceforge.net/
For the output stream I setup a ofstream object.

It looks like the code attached at the bottom. ofstream causes another weird
bug on AIX which results in all files being written has zero size. After
several hours of debugging I replaced the ofstream object with fstream which
works much better.
However this in turn causes seg faults on main() exit.

Below is the gdb backtrace:

Is anyone running nmon on a VIO server? Is doing so an IBM-approved
practice?

I want to watch the performance on my VIO servers, and nmon has such a
nice interface.

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