Problem with Mounts in NIM Maintenance at AIX 4.2.1

Environment

Problem

Attempts at NIM maintenance return the following:

	mount of /dev/hd2 did not succeed, exiting

Accessing the rootvg and attempting to mount the filesystems (either through the menu or by typing exit) also return:

	mount of /dev/hd2 did not succeed, exiting

The mount command shows /dev/hd4 mounted over /mnt, /dev/ram0 on /, and maybe /SPOT and /SPOT/usr.

Solution

There are two separate procedures to fix this.

• The first procedure is to execute the following:

  # cp /usr/sbin/mount /mnt
  # cd /mnt; echo * <-- should see "mount" in output list
  # cd ..
  # umount /mnt
  # mount -f /dev/hd4 /
  # /mount /dev/hd2 /usr
  # mount /dev/hd9var /var
  # mount /dev/hd3 /tmp
  # export ODMDIR=3D/etc/objrepos
  

• The second procedure is to execute the following:

  #mount /dev/hd2 /usr
  #mount /dev/hd3 /tmp
  #mount /dev/hd9var /var
  #export ODMDIR=3D/mnt/etc/objrepos
  #cp /mnt/sbin/rc.boot /sbin/rc.boot
  #mv /lib /lib.bak
  #ln -fs /usr/lib /lib
  

A permanent solution is to implement APAR IX69360.