Sorry for the delay in posting this summary.
Unfortunately no one on the list was able to give a definite reply. Compaq
support were unable to state for certain whether the system V printing
configuration should lose its printer configurations after an upgrade.
The recommendation is to save the following files before the upgrade, delete
the SVE subsets, perform the upgrade and then restore the saved files.
1) Save all of the files in /usr/opt/svr4/etc/lp/interfaces/*
2) Save everything under /usr/opt/svr4/etc/lp/printers/*/*
3) Save the /usr/opt/svr4/etc/lp/Systems file.
4) Save the /usr/opt/svr4/etc/lp/filter.table file only if it differs from
filter.table.i
5) Save the /usr/opt/svr4/etc/lp/users file if it exists.
6) Save anything under:
/usr/opt/svr4/etc/lp/classes
/usr/opt/svr4/etc/lp/forms
/usr/opt/svr4/etc/lp/pwheels
7) Save anything other than "standard" under /usr/opt/svr4/etc/lp/model
8) Save the directory structures (there are some .* dirs) under:
/usr/opt/svr4/var/spool/lp/requests
/usr/opt/svr4/var/spool/lp/tmp (except the file .SEQF)
9) Save the file /usr/opt/svr4/var/spool/lp/system/pstatus
Regards
Kevin Jones
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> Hello Managers
>
> I have today tried upgrading an Asvr 1000a from DU V4.0B to V4.0D. There
> is
> an application running on this system that requires the System 5 printing
> subset (SVEPRINT4??) to be installed, as it uses SVR4 print syntax. All of
> the SVE subsets have been installed.
>
> When the upgrade was started the system stated that the System V subsets
> must be deinstalled before the upgrade could continue, this was done with
> a
> setld -d SVE??? SVE??? etc....
>
> The operating system was then upgraded successfully. We then re-installed
> the SVE subsets from associated products vol 2.
>
> When we tried to print nothing worked. All the SVE print commands worked,
> but the system had lost all of its printer configuration, even
> /etc/printcap
> had disappeared. We tried extracting files from backup, but we were unsure
> of exactly which files to extract.
>
> Unfortunately the printing is essential to the operation of the system, so
> we had to revert to restoring from backup.
>
> Any ideas what we did wrong ??
>
> Regards
>
>
> Kevin Jones
>
>
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