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Gini and Frances, Upgrading our AIX 5.1 system from a base install to ML05 broke the LDM in the exact same way that you've observed on your AIX 4.3.3 system with ML11. I'll try a few other possibilities, but it seems that recent AIX patch levels contain a fundamental RPC libc change that's incompatible with the existing LDM code. mike On Mar 23, 8:14am, Virginia Galvin wrote: > Subject: please call us today as soon as possible re LDM failure at NWS > Steve and Mike > > Please, call us as soon as you can today. > > We are still one deep on LDM servers -- > > Please call me to discuss what you have found, > to tell us at what OS AIX 5.1 maintenance level your LDM is running on > to advise if we can/should upgrade our LDM servers to AIX 5.1 instead > trying to fix our AIX 4.3.3 LDM server (see below) > > Please call Gini Galvin as soon as you can > 240 393 3348 > > We saved the information you requested before we restored tgsv50 > After upgrade bos.rte.libc was 4.3.3.92 > Now it is back to 4.3.3.82 > But for some reason, system is still not working right. > > > after we upgraded to AIX 4.3.3 ML 11 We had the following: > bos.rte.libc > 4.3.3.0 COMMIT COMPLETE 08/07/02 17:49:12 > 4.3.3.75 COMMIT COMPLETE 08/07/02 18:40:50 > 4.3.3.82 COMMIT COMPLETE 08/07/02 18:40:52 > 4.3.3.92 COMMIT COMPLETE 03/11/04 14:37:04 > > > we restored from backup tape (which for some reason did not bring back LDM to > functionality) > now we have: > $ lslpp -h bos.rte.libc > Fileset Level Action Status Date Time > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Path: /usr/lib/objrepos > bos.rte.libc > 4.3.3.0 COMMIT COMPLETE 08/07/02 17:49:12 > 4.3.3.75 COMMIT COMPLETE 08/07/02 18:40:50 > 4.3.3.82 COMMIT COMPLETE 08/07/02 18:40:52