Tips & tricks

GCC creates default 32bit binaries

Add to the gcc commandline: -maix64.

Files can't get larger than 2GB

Create a journaled file system (NOT extendend or jfs2!) and enable the "Large File Enabled" option (in smitty).
This 2GB limit also applies when ulimit -f is set to unlimited(!).

Firefox fails to connect to HMC port with unsupported security protocol error

Surf to "about:config" (without quotes) and then set all parameters starting with "security." to "true".

Linux installed in an LPAR doesn't reboot

Occasionally a Linux system crashes. Now when you want to reboot the LPAR in which it runs, do not choose 'reboot & write dump' as VIOS does not know how to handle the Linux swap-space (to store the memory dump). If you do, VIOS will give you an af003202 and af003302 error. So always select the 'reboot WITHOUT dump' option.

while compiling: "collect2: library libm not found"

Install the bos.adt.libm package from the AIX installation media.





 
 
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