IV98448: POWERHA: CLVER MAY CORE DUMP AFTER ERRONEOUS ERROR MESSAGES.

PowerHA-7.2.0 SP5

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• - The PowerHA clver verification utility may produce
  erroneous error messages such as the following:
       . . .
       Verifying node nodeName.
       ERROR: caavg_private is not imported
              (has no disk assigned) on node nodeName
  
    after which the clver utility may core dump
    with the following call stack shown in errpt:
    ---------------------
    strcpy 4
    ver_getif 8F4
    ver_topol 160
    start_clv EAC
    main F68
    ---------------------
  
  - This clver core dump is caused by the following
    apar issue:
  
       IV93375 Core dumps in multithreaded process
               using Olson TZ (time zones).
  
    The problem may be corrected by applying
    the fix for apar iv93375, or using the
    work around of changing to the use of POSIX
    time zones.
  
  - This apar is to address the code issues
    in the clver utility which cause the
    CORE_DUMP symptom to appear.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• The PowerHA clver verification utility
  may produce erroneous error messages
  such as the following: . . . Verifying node nodeName.
  ERROR: caavg_private is not
  imported (has no disk assigned)
  on node nodeName after which
  the clver utility may core dump
  

Problem conclusion

• Check that values used to allocate memory aren't 0.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

  IV98096

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  POWERHA SYSMIR

• Fixed component ID

  5765H3910

Applicable component levels