Problems installing Recommended Maintanance Package 2

[terrywashington]

I am attemtping to update my RS6000 from 5100-03 to 5100-04. I successfully installed 510304.v1.tar.gz, ran oslevel -r and received 5100-03. The instructions indicate that if this happens to install 510304.v2.tar.gz. I then received the below message when attemting to install the above. Does anyone have any ideas?

# installp -acgXd /usr/sys/inst.images bos.rte.install
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Pre-installation Verification...
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Verifying selections...done
Verifying requisites...done
Results...

WARNINGS
--------
Problems described in this section are not likely to be the source of any
immediate or serious failures, but further actions may be necessary or
desired.

Already Installed
-----------------
The number of selected filesets that are either already installed
or effectively installed through superseding filesets is 1. See
the summaries at the end of this installation for details.

NOTE: Base level filesets may be reinstalled using the "Force"
option (-F flag), or they may be removed, using the deinstall or
"Remove Software Products" facility (-u flag), and then reinstalled.

<< End of Warning Section >>

FILESET STATISTICS
------------------
1 Selected to be installed, of which:
1 Already installed (directly or via superseding filesets)
----
0 Total to be installed


Pre-installation Failure/Warning Summary
----------------------------------------
Name Level Pre-installation Failure/Warning
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bos.rte.install 5.1.0.50 Already installed

 

[bi]

What do you get when you do an lslpp -l | grep bos.rte.install? Do you get anything with an lppchk -v?

I didn't see the bos.rte.install fileset in 510304.v2.tar.gz. Did you download the .gz files into the same directory? If so, you might have the .toc file from the first .gz file and installp thinks the 5.1.0.50 is what is on the list to install. Do an ls -al in the directory where you untarred the files and delete any .toc you see there and try again.

Alternatively, you could do what the NOTE in the message says: use the Force option (-F flag) in your installp command.

 

[terrywashington]

Here are the results of lslpp and lppchk.
# lslpp -l |grep bos.rte.install
bos.rte.install 5.1.0.50 COMMITTED LPP Install Commands
# lppchk -v
lppchk: The following filesets need to be installed or corrected to bring
the system to a consistent state:

devices.isa_sio.PNP0600.com 4.1.0.0 (not installed; requisite fileset)

I did download the .gz files into the same directory. I deleted the .toc file and received the same message when I tried again.

 

[bi]

What puzzles me is that bos.rte.install isn't in the 510304.v2.tar.gz file. These are the PTFs that are in that file: bos.loc.utf.KO_KR.5.1.0.50, bos.loc.iso.ko_KR.5.1.0.50, bos.loc.adt.locale.5.1.0.50, bos.loc.utf.ZH_TW.5.1.0.50, bos.loc.is.Zh_TW.5.1.0.50, bos.loc.iso.zh_TW.5.1.0.50, bos.loc.utf.ZH_CN.5.1.0.50, bos.loc.ios.zh_CN.5.1.0.50, bos.loc.utf.CS_CZ.5.1.050, bff bos.loc.utf.JP_JP.5.1.50, bff bos.loc.com.JP.5.1.0.50, bff bos.loc.com.utf.5.1.0.50.

If you use the -F flag, you're going to reinstall everything that is in /usr/sys/inst.images. I've got 337 files in my inst.images directory.

Here is how I would do it: copy the 510304.v2.tar.gz file into a different directory, say /download. gunzip and untar the file. Then use the command: installp -acgXd /download

Note, you aren't specifying bos.rte.install.

Or, make it easy on yourself and install using smit.

 

[Yegolev]

try smit and see if it does something you don't. the flags for geninstall are identical to installp, by the way.

IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation