From: Myers, Drew (MyersD@GOALAMO.COM)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 13:49:07 EST
I agree, and that's excellent advice. Unfortunately, up to now, I do
savevgs (all my user's data is on non-rootvg volume groups) only once a
month, while doing mksysb's weekly.
Of course, that will be changing now ;)
Thanks again.
-----Original Message-----
From: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 1:47 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Installation woes
Ah! Smart move.
I think you're correct: reject those updates and look for unwanted filesets
to remove.
Probably doesn't need saying, but take a mksysb after you've done the
reject, just in case.
I'd still be inclined to restore from a mksysb done before the updates, if
you have one. I always like to get back to a known condition when I'm in
trouble.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myers, Drew [mailto:MyersD@GOALAMO.COM]
> Sent: 17 March 2003 18:29
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Installation woes
>
>
> Fortunately, I APPLIED the changes, so the updates to
> existing filesets are
> still in that state. Easy to rollback. My big problem is, well...the
> installp manpage probably explains it best.
>
> "When a base level (fileset) is installed on the system, it
> is automatically
> committed. You can remove a fileset regardless of the state
> (committed,
> broken,
> committed with applied updates, committed with committed
> updates, etc.)."
>
> This adds an extra level of complexity. This is what I'm thinking:
> 1) remove the APPLIED filesets
> 2) remove the base filesets that were installed during this
> little patching
> session
>
> theoretically, that should work though I suspect it will introduce
> instability in the system. Which leaves me with the least
> enjoyable, but
> probably most stable option...reinstall.
>
> Am I missing anything?
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