HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, September 2009 (Update 5 Release)

Unsupported system configurations Many different configurations are selectable at
update time, but not all of them would result in supported system configurations. For
this reason, pre-update scripts built into the September 2008 OEUR and beyond will
block certain updates before they start, to prevent updates into unstable configurations.
The scripts will print an error message, and the error can be resolved by restarting the
update with different software selections.
For example, if an existing 11i v3 system has VxFS 4.1 and VxVM 4.1 configured, and
an update is attempted to the September 2008 OEUR and beyond with only VxFS 5.0
selected, the OEUR scripts will block the update. This is done because this update
would result in a system that has VxFS 5.0 and VxVM 4.1 installed—an unsupported
combination of versions. To resolve this error, simply restart the update after selecting
both VxFS 5.0 and VxVM 5.0 in update-ux, so that the update results in matching 11i
v3 versions of VxFS and VxVM.
Other unsupported paths will also be blocked by the scripts of September 2008 OEUR
and beyond, and can be resolved in similar ways. (The other most common blocked
update occurs when 11i v2 VxVM is in use on a system but you forget to select VxVM
5.0 at update time.)
Updates from HP-UX 11i v2 with OnlineJFS 4.1 to HP-UX 11i v3 with OnlineJFS 5.0
To update HP-UX 11i v2 systems that are installed with HP-UX 11i v2 OnlineJFS 4.1
and that you want to update to HP-UX 11i v3 with OnlineJFS 5.0 (B3929FB), you must
deselect HP-UX 11i v3 OnLineJFS 4.1 (B3929EA) during the update. This can be done
in the update-ux command line as follows:
update-ux -s source_location !B3929EA B3929FB
The !B3929EA entry on the command line ensures that 11i v3 OnLineJFS 4.1 is not
installed from the depot during the update.
IMPORTANT: Known Problem:
When OnLineJFS 5.0 (B3929FB) is selected in the scenario above, the following selection
time warning from update-ux may be seen:
WARNING: The following was found while selecting software:
- There are new revisions of SW available in the source that would update
SW already installed on the system. The newer revisions are not selected
for installation. This could leave the incompatible old revision of SW on
the system. The affected SW is:
- OnlineJFS.VXFS41-AD-RN,r=B.11.31 replaces
OnlineJFS01.VXFS41-AD-RN,r=4.1.004
What to Do This warning can be safely ignored. The update will complete successfully
despite this warning. This known problem is also listed in Appendix A: “Known install
and update problems” (page 91).
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