Read Before Installing MPE/iX Release 6.5 PowerPatch 5 (C.65.05) (30216-90358)

Information to Read before Installing MPE/iX 6.5 PowerPatch 5

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Chapter 1

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HPINSTAL & AUTOINST work file needs to be larger

Version E.12.01 of AUTOINST and version B.13.03 of HPINSTAL have a fix for this and these versions must be

restored from the 6.5 PowerPatch 5 tape before using them for installation of this PowerPatch release.

Instructions for restoring the newer versions of AUTOINST and HPINSTAL are located in the HP 3000

MPE/iX Release 6.5 System Software Maintenance Manual in the following sections:

AUTOINST Section 5.7 titled “Creating the CSLT Using AUTOINST”, step 3, page 121.

HPINSTAL Section 4.3 titled “Preparing to Run HPINSTAL”, step 16, page 78.

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STMSHUT sometimes unable to completely close daemon

During certain installations of the C.65.05 PowerPatch, an installation job has been found to fail due to the

inability of the diagnostic monitor to completely shut down. The symptom of the problem is that the job

I0231900 will abort, which will trigger the installing tool (usually HPINSTAL) to systematically abort.

Within the spoolfile of this jobstream, the following failure text is seen:

:purge /usr/lib/libmcats.sl

EXCLUSIVE VIOLATION: FILE ACCESSED EXCLUSIVELY (FSERR 91)

Unable to purge file "/usr/lib/libmcats.sl". (CIERR 384)\

REMAINDER OF JOB FLUSHED.

This condition can be resolved, and the installation can be resumed, by following these steps:

1. Kill the diagmond daemon.

From MANAGER.SYS, enter

:run sh.hpbin.sys

$ ps -ef | grep diagmond

The above command should return a line similar to this:

0 65584 1 0 Jan 01 1:10 /usr/sbin/stm/uut/bin/sys/diagmond

^^^^^

Note this number. It is the pid number of the process that needs to be killed. Issue the kill command for

this pid:

$kill 65584 (for pid# 65584)

Now, verify that the process has been aborted, by repeating the 'ps' command:

$ ps -ef | grep diagmond

There should not be any entries returned, merely a line-feed. If the entry is still showing, use this kill

command:

$kill –9 65584 (for pid# 65584)

2. Resume the installation. Merely run the installer program again. Make sure you are in the INSTALL

group, and issue the run command.