dlpar problem on sles9/openpower

[Ingvar Hagelund]

This is a pure user question

We have an IBM OpenPower 720 with hypervisor and a set of
lpars. Earlier we got dlpar to work, at least a couple of times, but
not anymore. Here's an example:

Ran this on the hmc:

~> chhwres -r virtualio -m Server-9124-720-SNXXXXXXX -p mgmt -o a \
  --rsubtype eth -s 11 \
  -a "ieee_virtual_eth=1,port_vlan_id=1,is_trunk=1,\"addl_vlan_ids=600,601\""

HSCL294C DLPAR ADD Virtual I/O resources failed: HMC adding Virtual I/O ......
HMC Virtual slot DLPAR operation failed. Here are the virtual slot IDs that failed and the reasons for failure:
11 The dynamic logical partitioning operation failed.

On the lpar "mgmt", running sles9 sp2 kernel 2.6.5-7.193-pseries64, we
have the magic rpms from IBM installed:

evlog-drv-tmpl-0.8-1
diagela-1.3.0.0-6
lsvpd-0.12.7-1
ppc64-utils-2.5-2
librtas-1.2-1

... and the following IBM services are running:

# lssrc -a
Subsystem         Group            PID     Status
 ctrmc            rsct             5011    active
 IBM.ServiceRM    rsct_rm          5103    active
 IBM.DRM          rsct_rm          5110    active
 IBM.HostRM       rsct_rm          5186    active
 IBM.CSMAgentRM   rsct_rm          5217    active
 IBM.ERRM         rsct_rm          5221    active
 IBM.AuditRM      rsct_rm          5266    active
 ctcas            rsct             7705    active
 IBM.SensorRM     rsct_rm          7721    active
 IBM.FSRM         rsct_rm          7722    active
 IBM.ConfigRM     rsct_rm          7723    active

The hmc seems to be able to talk to the managed system

~> lshwres -r virtualio --rsubtype eth -m Server-9124-720-SNXXXXXXX \
  --level lpar --filter "lpar_names=mgmt"

lpar_name=mgmt,lpar_id=1,slot_num=10,state=null,ieee_virtual_eth=1,port_vlan_id=1,"addl_vlan_ids=500,501,502,503",is_trunk=1,is_required=0,mac_addr=AE808000100A

... and to the lpar:

~> lspartition -dlpar
<#0> Partition:<1, power0.somewhere.tld, 10.0.0.2>
       Active:<1>, OS:<Linux, 2.6.5-7.193-pseries64>, DCaps:<0xf>, CmdCaps:<0x1, 0x1>, PinnedMem:<0>


So, where can I start digging?

Regards,
Ingvar


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