VIOS not booting up completely

Hi All - I have a Power8 S822. The VIOS system no longer seems to boot up properly as I see the below messages and wondering if anyone has any ideas as to what the problem is.

The system boots up and I can log in on the console, but then I have to 'up' the en0 NIC via ifconfig in order for it to be on network. Once it is up it is accessible via ssh from other hosts, and it can resolve hostnames etc from its cmd line.

Thx in Advance!

Most concerning:

[STOP] Virtual I/O server detected, ASO will exit.statd -a can't get ip configuration
: No such file or directory
0513-059 The rpc.statd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 6095044.
0513-059 The rpc.lockd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 6095046.
Completed NFS services.

statd -a can't get ip configuration

: No such file or directory

statd -a can't get ip configuration

: No such file or directory

Here's the full console on boot;

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Elapsed time since release of system processors: 2 mins 53 secs


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Welcome to the Virtual I/O Server.
                   boot image timestamp: 17:35:41 11/02/2016
                 The current time and date: 19:49:27 05/01/2024
        processor count: 2;  memory size: 8192MB;  kernel size: 29475327
     boot device: /pci@800000020000015/pci1014,034A@0/sas/disk@c070adb700
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Saving Base Customize Data to boot disk
Starting the sync daemon
Mounting the platform dump file system, /var/adm/ras/platform
Starting the error daemon
System initialization completed.
TE=OFF
CHKEXEC=OFF
CHKSHLIB=OFF
CHKSCRIPT=OFF
CHKKERNEXT=OFF
STOP_UNTRUSTD=OFF
STOP_ON_CHKFAIL=OFF
LOCK_KERN_POLICIES=OFF
TSD_FILES_LOCK=OFF
TSD_LOCK=OFF
TEP=OFF
TLP=OFF
Successfully updated the Kernel Authorization Table.
Successfully updated the Kernel Role Table.
Successfully updated the Kernel Command Table.
Successfully updated the Kernel Device Table.
Successfully updated the Kernel Object Domain Table.
Successfully updated the Kernel Domains Table.
OPERATIONAL MODE Security Flags
ROOT                      :    ENABLED
TRACEAUTH                 :   DISABLED
System runtime mode is now OPERATIONAL MODE.
Setting tunable parameters...complete
Starting Multi-user Initialization
Performing auto-varyon of Volume Groups
Activating all paging spaces
0517-075 swapon: Paging device /dev/paging00 is already active.
swapon: Paging device /dev/hd6 activated.

The current volume is: /dev/hd1
Primary superblock is valid.

The current volume is: /dev/hd10opt
Primary superblock is valid.
Performing all automatic mounts
Replaying log for /dev/VMLibrary.
Multi-user initialization completed
Checking for srcmstr active...complete
Starting tcpip daemons:
0513-059 The inetd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 3932356.
0513-059 The xntpd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 4653200.
0513-059 The syslogd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 4784274.
0513-059 The portmap Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 4391070.
Finished starting tcpip daemons.
Starting NFS services:
0513-059 The biod Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 4915372.
[STOP] Virtual I/O server detected, ASO will exit.statd -a can't get ip configuration
: No such file or directory
0513-059 The rpc.statd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 6095044.
0513-059 The rpc.lockd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 6095046.
Completed NFS services.
statd -a can't get ip configuration
: No such file or directory
statd -a can't get ip configuration
: No such file or directory
0513-059 The lldpd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 6553820.
0513-059 The ecpvdpd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 17891388.

513-059 The ecpvdpd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 17891388.
IBM Virtual I/O Server

                      login:
IBM Virtual I/O Server

                      login: padmin

@veenbaas , Welcome. first off , learn how to use the markdown menu options to separate text from code/system outputs. There's a menu of option above the dialog box you type into, use them please, makes deciphering posts a lot simpler for forum members.

I've edited your inital post so you can see.

tks

I'm not an AIX expert but.........

What command do you run to bring up the network interface manually?
Are you quoting a static ip address in that? Or getting it from a DHCP server??

If the system normally has a static ip address then, on boot up, it will read its node name from somewhere, then go to /etc/hosts with that name to read its ip address. and then up the interface (assuming there's only one network interface on the system).

However, if the system is configured to get its ip address from a DHCP server then perhaps that is broken/not responding/whatever.

I'm no AIX expert either.
Found an article:
Resetting Network in VIOS (Virtual I/O Server) (ibm.com)

Thx for the replies - The problem has been solved by stopping a starting rpc.statd manually.

You mean stopping then starting rpc.statd because now it finds an IP address?

But why didn't the system get an IP address at system boot?

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Not sure why that allowed me to then boot into normal mode...It's a static IP system..but all seem normal with that now

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