HP-UX 11i Version 2 Installation and Update Guide, March 2004

Known Problems and Troubleshooting
Known Install/Update Problems
Appendix B166
1. Save any customization files to a safe location
2. Use the swremove command to remove HIDS (J5083AA)
3. Use the swinstall command to install HIDS (J5083AA) from the
HP-UX 11i v2 media.
“Incorrect protocol version (20) in volboot file” Error
After updating to HP-UX 11i v2 from HP-UX 11i v1.6, the following error
message may appear during reboot:
Starting vxconfigd in boot mode (pre_init_rc).
vxvm:vxconfigd: WARNING: volboot: Incorrect protocol version (20)
in volboot file.
vxvm:vxconfigd: WARNING: volboot: Using the highest supported
protocol version 40
Checking root file system.
How Do You Know
If This Affects You
You will encounter this error if you updated an HP-UX 11i v1.6 system
with VxVM 3.1 as your volume manager to HP-UX 11i v2 with VxVM
3.5. The problem is caused by different version values in the volboot file
(20 in VxVM 3.1; 40 in VxVM 3.5
What to Do You can safely ignore this error message.
“Unable to flush file system metadata for /stand to
disk” Warning
The following warning message will appear just before your system
reboots after updating to HP-UX 11i v2 from HP-UX 11i v1.6:
WARNING: Unable to flush file system metadata for /stand to
disk
How Do You Know
If This Affects You
The problem occurs after updating to HP-UX 11i v2 from HP-UX 11i
v1.6. During the reboot after the update, the HP-UX 11i v2 Update-UX
kernel attempts to reboot the system.