bos update problem

[MIKEVANHOFF]

I have been handed a J30 from one of our subsideraries. It has two issues I would like advice on:
1. An attempt to update the bos from 4.3.2.0-0 to 4.3.3.0-10 that has failed. The system appears to operational. How can I update this system with a minimal impact to the users (who are currently working)?
2. A 72.gb hard drive was installed - A Volume Group created - Logical Volumes have been created, but when a File System is added it fails with the following message:
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program bc because of the following errors:
0509-023 Symbol __malloc_user_defined_name in bc is not defined.
0509-026 System error: Cannot run a file that does not have a valid form
at.
rmlv: Logical volume loglv00 is removed.

The FS was being added to an existing LV on the new drive.

Any and all hints/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

1. I think that you'll need to IPL your system in any case, so working users will be killed (oops, only their processes ;-) )
2. Sounds like a bad linked program ... You say "an attempt to update has failed". How does update failed ? Did you try to uninstall ML after ? Are there other programs that crash that way since this update ?

 

[MIKEVANHOFF]

Smit log shows that the update failed. The person doing the update did not check perquisites or ML's of the 4.3.2.0 install. They then used the 4.3.3.0 (ML 75) product cd to update the OS. The Smit log shows the failure because of missing ML's

 

[nwardez]

I'm not in front of an Aix box, but something like "lppcheck -v" should verify dependencies between filesets and tell you if failed update has damaged some components

 

[AIXSPadmin]

oslevel and instfix are the two commands you will need to check which filesets are at the correct level and which ones will need updating. As for the failure, you will have failures if there was 1 missing requesite fileset not installed, but the other filesets will have been installed. The smit.log on / will list the filesets applied/comitted and those that failed and will have the failures section list required filesets.

A reboot is necessary because you have updated base level filesets and because of that you are getting the error you see for bc.

Good luck.

 

[MIKEVANHOFF]

The system has been restarted a number of times, but I still get the bc error.