AIX on P series power problem

agallant · 09-24-2004, 03:23 PM

Any one have any ideas?

"Broadcast message from root@FACTS (tty) at 12:00:00 ... :::::::::::::::12:15 PM5
ENTER SELECTION #, ACCESS CODE, 'OFF', ARROWS, F4-PREVIOUS MENU
rc.powerfail:2::WARNING!!! The system is now operating with a power problem.
This message will be walled every 12 hours. Remove this crontab entry after the
problem is resolved."

iainr · 09-25-2004, 04:16 AM

As the message suggests, it get's triggered automatically (I think from cron) when the system detects a power problem. I normally see this when one power supply on a dual-power system has failed so the server keeps on going and without the message you might not notice.

You should check the error log on the system and, if necessary, get an IBM engineer to check out the box. If there isn't a problem, the message will still continue unless removed so you'll need to track it down and delete it from crontab or whatever.

zorba4 · 09-25-2004, 04:02 PM

In order to remove this message :
1) First of all, perform a system backup (just in case...) smit mksysb
2) crontab -l >/tmp/crontab.txt # creates a text file with the current crontab jobs
3) vi /tmp/crontab.txt, remove the powerdown line.
4) crontab -r /tmp/crontab.txt #re-creates the crontab reading crontab.txt