HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2014

The !B3929EA entry on the command line ensures that 11i v3 OnLineJFS 4.1 is not installed from
the depot during the update.
IMPORTANT: When OnlineJFS 5.1 SP1 (B3929HB) is selected in the preceding scenario, the
following warning from update-ux might be seen during selection time:
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 completes successfully despite this warning. This
harmless message is also listed in Appendix A: “Harmless messages and known problems”
(page 73).
Other supported configurations
If you want to remain on VxFS and VxVM versions 4.1, 5.0, or 5.0.1 (available separately), see
the white paper Installation of non-default VxFS and VxVM software version on HP-UX 11i v3
March 2014 Operating Environment Update Release at http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs. The
paper includes detailed instructions for the following supported configurations and other
considerations:
• LVM with VxFS 4.1 Configuration
• VxVM 4.1 with VxFS 4.1 Configuration
• Updates from HP-UX 11i v2 with OnlineJFS 4.1 to HP-UX 11i v3 with OnlineJFS 4.1
• Updates to HP-UX 11i v3 with VxVM 4.1
• LVM with VxFS 5.0 Configuration
• VxVM 5.0 with VxFS 5.0 Configuration
• Updates from HP-UX 11i v2 with OnlineJFS 5.0 to HP-UX 11i v3 with OnlineJFS 5.0
• Updates to HP-UX 11i v3 with VxVM 5.0
• LVM with VxFS 5.0.1 Configuration
• VxVM 5.0.1 with VxFS 5.0.1 Configuration
• Updates from HP-UX 11i v2 with OnlineJFS 5.0 to HP-UX 11i v3 with OnlineJFS 5.0.1
• Updates to HP-UX 11i v3 with VxVM 5.0.1
Unsupported system configurations
Many different configurations are selectable at update time, but not all of them results in supported
system configurations. For this reason, pre-update scripts built into the September 2011 OEUR and
beyond will block certain updates before they start. This prevents updates into unstable
configurations. The scripts print an error message and the error can be resolved by restarting the
update with different software selections.
For example, if your existing 11i v3 system has VxFS 4.1 and VxVM 4.1 configured, and you
attempt to update to September 2011 OEUR (and beyond) with only VxFS 5.1 SP1 selected, the
OEUR scripts block the update. This is done because this update would result in a system that has
VxFS 5.1 SP1 and VxVM 4.1 installed—an unsupported combination of versions. To resolve this
error, simply restart the update after selecting both VxFS 5.1 SP1 and VxVM 5.1 SP1 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 2011 OEUR (and beyond)
and can be resolved in similar ways. (The other most common blocked update occurs when HP-UX
11i v2 VxVM is in use on a system but you have forgotten to select VxVM 5.1 SP1 at update time.)
Other supported configurations 85