Re: HMC upgrade: Stuck at "localhost login:" -- MIDRANGE-L

I do not see the need for a second VM, unless you need geographic
redundancy. The VM should be covered by whatever VM backup technology the
VMWare guys use. I mean, you might not have done a snapshot right before
the upgrade but the VM IS getting backed up with the rest of the VMs,
right? Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam, etc, one of those should be doing at
least daily backups of the HMC, it's not like it has a huge delta of data
to sync so it shouldn't take long...
If you can see the hash for the file from the website (or if it has a hash
file next to the file) you can use open-source tools to hash your download

Hope you fix it quickly.

Roberto

On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 at 18:06, Shaun Ryan <Shaun.Ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Rob
The lack of the Critical Console Data should not be the end of the
world.

As long as you know the IP range for your servers FSP's you can scratch
install the HMC and once you define the private network and connect to
the
Power systems your current lpar profile settings will be imported via
the
hypervisor (at least that is the way I remember it going - admittedly
on a
physical HMC).

If you don't know the ip range then get someone to attend site and
perform
a function code 30 to get the FSP IP address

Have fallen into the trap of the login screen issue a couple of times on
the V8 code stream and a scratch install was required

Your key issue will be defined users and re doing all the "soft
operational settings" - but that is only work. ..........

Hate to say it with 40/40 hindsight - time for a second HMC VM?

Shaun

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 8 June 2021 5:39 am
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <
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Subject: RE: HMC upgrade: Stuck at "localhost login:"

Duty manager finally got someone to call me back.
I had downloaded from the ibm site to a directory on IBM i. Then I used
the get upgrade from the hmc to the IBM i site. Even though the byte
size
is exact the support guy says my download must be corrupt and that is
what
he sees (or guesses) is the issue each time this happens. He has no clue
how to do a checksum on either IBM i, nor on the HMC after the get
upgrade.
He had me use vmware to restart the session and it hung again on the log
in.

He says I'm <expletive deleted>. He suggests that I download the new
version of HMC directly and scratch install.
Of course the steps had me run a save upgrade data but not a Backup
Critical Console data so guess what I do not have.

Rob Berendt
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Rob
Berendt
Sent: Monday, June 7, 2021 9:03 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: HMC upgrade: Stuck at "localhost login:"

I am upgrading my vHMC following the steps at:
[7]https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6372280
I have ran the step: hmcshutdown -t now -r
It started the reboot. It's been sitting at a screen displaying the
following for quite some time now:
IBM Linux 9 (hmc9_0p)
Kernel 4.18.0-193.14.3.el8.im.1.x86_64 on an x86_64
localhost login:
I tried logging in as hscroot. It did not like that. Then it erased the
screen and redisplayed the above.
What do I do?

I have a case opened with IBM on this. However they never get back to
you
on the same day regarding HMC issues until you bring the duty manager on
the line. Once it's been here for two hours I will try that route.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko
Dept 1600
Mail to: 7310 Innovation Blvd, Suite 104
Ft. Wayne, IN 46818
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