SUMMARY (updated): Tru64 5.1B patch kit 5 installation problem

From: Ole Holm Nielsen (Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk)
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 04:36:06 EDT


Please note the updated info below.
Thanks to Dan.Price@hp.com and martin.roende@mail.dk.

> The file /etc/pmgrd_iorate.config should be a soft link to
> ../cluster/members/{memb}/etc/pmgrd_iorate.config
> which I had somehow overwritten. Recreating the soft
> link by
> cd /etc; ln -s '../cluster/members/{memb}/etc/pmgrd_iorate.config'
> (notice the quotes to escape {memb}) fixes the problem.

Note: The correct command is *not* "ln -s" but:
    mkcdsl /etc/pmgrd_iorate.config
which will work correctly also on Tru64 clusters.
See the manual page for mkcdsl.

> Now I could let dupatch do a baseline check without error.
>
> Thanks to these people for the correct answer:
> "Dr Thomas.Blinn@HP.com" <tpb@doctor.zk3.dec.com>
> "Jenny Butler" <jbutler@utmem.edu>
> "A. Mahendra Rajah" <Mahendra.Rajah@URegina.CA>
> "Brusche, Johan" <johan.brusche@hp.com>
>
>> I'm trying to upgrade Tru64 5.1B from patch kit 4 to patch kit 5.
>> There's an error which I haven't been able to solve (see below).
>> The file /etc/pmgrd_iorate.config was modified by me for disk
>> monitoring, so I've renamed this file prior to installing the patch kit.
>> I've also done a dupatch baseline operation, but this didn't
>> solve the problem with /etc/pmgrd_iorate.config.
>>
>> Any suggestions for a resolution ? At the moment that patch
>> kit installation refuses to proceed because of this problem :-(
>>
>>
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>> Problem installing:
>>
>> - Tru64_UNIX_V5.1B / Network Patches:
>> Patch 26020.00 - SP05 OSFCLINET540 (SSRT3653 SSRT2384
SSRT2275 ...)
>> ./etc/pmgrd_iorate.config:
>> does not exist on your system,
>> however, it is in the inventory of installed subsets.
>>
>> This patch will not be installed.
>>
>>
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Ole Holm Nielsen
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark



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