Upgrade ML on Aix 5.2

[nmorph]

Hello to all

I have a problem regarding ML upgrade on Aix 5.2. I have download all the information from ML package from IBM site. In my machine I have the ML04 and I want to upgrade to ML08. So far so good. Except when I tried to do the comand

/usr/lib/instl/sm_inst installp_cmd -a -d '.' -f '_update_all' '-p' '-N' '-g' '-X'

the ouput of the script tell me the following.

Output from Command_to_Execute follows below:



---- start ----

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# No filesets on the media could be used to update the currently
# installed software.
#
# Either the software is already at the same level as on the media, or
# the media contains only filesets which are not currently installed.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------

---- end ----

After that we find out this ouput from the OS.

All filesets for 5.2.0.0_AIX_ML were found.

All filesets for 5200-01_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 5200-02_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 5200-03_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 5200-04_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 5200-05_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 5200-06_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 5200-07_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 5200-08_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 5200-09_AIX_ML were found.


Does anyone knows the way to solve this problem. We had to put the ML08 because interprise needed.

This is a urgent issue to me. Can someone help me?

Thanks very much!

 

[bennotech]

Hello,
If you issue command "oslevel -rl 5200-09" it will list the filesets required for that ML level.
Also "lppchk -v" or "lppchk -m3 -v" will do similar.
Should give you a starting point to correct what's been done,
regards
Benno

...it really does get worse than this !!

 

[bennotech]

....did you download the technology level (TL) or the service pack (SP) ? and did you read the notes ?
If you follow this link it will explain the difference :

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/emergingtech/fsherman/archives/aix-maintenance-strategies-10051

Benno



...it really does get worse than this !!

 

[TSch]

I'd use

"smitty update_all"

just to be sure you get all the parameters right.

Next you should run

instfix -ick <ML_Keyword> | grep ':-:'

to determine exactly what is missing.

In your case the commands would be

instfix -ick 5200-05_AIX_ML | grep ':-:'
instfix -ick 5200-06_AIX_ML | grep ':-:'
instfix -ick 5200-07_AIX_ML | grep ':-:'
instfix -ick 5200-08_AIX_ML | grep ':-:'

Regards
Thomas

 

[TSch]

One more thing (Just to be sure) ...

You didn't forget the

inutoc .

command after downloading the filesets, did you ?

Regards
Thomas

 

[hfaix]

I had a similar thought to TSch.

You should remove the .toc file in the directory you are doing the update from. Smitty update_all will create a new one when you run it.

 

[khalidaaa]

I would agree with Benno in doing oslevel -rl 5200-09 cause that what i used when i had similar problem and discovered that there was a chinese package that didn't updated when i upgraded my system! so i removed that package and every thing was ok!

Regards,
Khalid

 

[nmorph]

Hello

I have tried the instfix -ick <ML_Keyword> | grep ':-:' and everything now it's looking good.

Thanks to all that support my problem.

Regards

Nuno Catarino