Read Before Installing MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 Software Release (C.75.02) (30216-90351)

Information You Need Before Installing MPE/iX 7.5 PowerPatch 2

Important CR Information

Chapter 1

Information You Need Before Installing

MPE/iX 7.5 PowerPatch 2

Important CR Information

Please take note of the updated CR information.

CR# JAGae78289 / 8606315566

:STMSHUT sometimes unable to completely close daemon

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

of the diagnostic monitor to completely shutdown. 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 (user entries are

in bold below):

1. Kill the diagmond daemon.

From MANAGER.SYS,

: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. Simply run the installer program again. Make sure you are in the INSTALL

group, and issue the run command.

:run hpinstal

The installation process will detect where it left off, and will resume from that point.