During the commit process, you may see Validation Warnings and Validation Errors. In addition, the following may be displayed:
Warning: This commit affects partitions that could be running an operating system.
This error occurs when the firmware identified a partition was powered on, but APW could not determine whether an OS was running in that partition. Verify that all partitions are shut down and press Confirm to continue.
Error: This commit affects running operating systems.
This error occurs when APW determined that an OS is running in a partition, and this partition map will require that APW move duos or QBBs currently assigned to the running partition. Save the partition map, shut down the affected OS, and rerun APW to commit your changes.
After an error or warning, start AMU or connect to the platform's MBM console to diagnose the problem. The AlphaServer ES47/ES80/GS1280 documentation includes information about errors that may appear in the cmfd log files.
The commit process can take as long as 10 minutes on a large system. If you believe that the commit process won't ever finish, you should terminate APW and use the MBM console to diagnose the problem. To terminate APW, browse away from the SPM page to another page or refresh the browser page displaying the SPM. Your commit will stop in the middle, and some of the work may be incomplete. If you are running SPM or APW from a command line, click in that terminal window and press Ctrl-C.