Read Before Installing MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 3 Software Release (C.75.03) (30216-90360)

Information You Need Before Installing MPE/iX 7.5 PowerPatch 3

Important CR Information

Chapter 1

Important CR Information

Please take note of the updated CR information.

CR# JAGad62997 / 8606193787

Shut4 20 Min Hang on Shutdown due to tcpsip not Terminating

If the Support Tools Manager (STM) is not shutdown prior to doing a =SHUTDOWN, then the =SHUTDOWN will

pause for 5 minutes or longer between the Shut4 and Shut6 messages, for example:

Shutdown of system processes begins (Shut 4)

/*5 minute or longer pause */

Shutdown of operating system complete. (Shut 6)

To avoid this delay, shutdown STM before the network is stopped by running the stmshut.diag.sys program,

and check that the diagmon programs are no longer running.

:run stmshut.diag.sys

:run sh.hpbin.sys

ps -e -o args | grep -i stm

:nscontrol stop

exit

If diagmond, diaglogd, memlogd or cclogd are listed, then see article “STMSHUT sometimes unable to

completely close daemon” below, for information about how to manually shutdown the diagnostic monitor.

Once the diagnostic monitor is no longer running, proceed to stopping the network and shutting down the

system.

nscontrol stop

:netcontrol stop

=SHUTDOWN

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: