Sorry for this long delay. I was waiting for interesting suggestions
from Compaq, but it doesn't happen. Support says that updamin should be
run after installupdate, but BEFORE patches installation.
I do not agree with this statement.
Here is my original message:
In a mail dated August 21, Claude Scarpelli <claude_at_genoscope.cns.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi Tru64 Managers,
>
> I just upgrade a GS60 from 4.0E PK#4 + TCR 1.5 to 4.0F PK#4 + TCR 1.6
> (using the rolling upgrade procedure). Things were running
> smoothly. As a final stage, I decided to run the program
> /usr/sbin/updadmin in order to remove "obsoletes" files.
>
> For a reason I'm unable to understand, updadmin removes some essential
> files, like (extract from /var/adm/smlogs/upd_obsolete_files) :
>
> ./usr/sbin/showdbb OSFINET435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/sbin/dupatch OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/sbin/collect OSFPAT00058200435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
>
> ./usr/lbin/volatile.dat OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/sysconf OSFPAT00058200435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/patmenu OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/patch_fman OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/patch_blt OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/ordersubsets OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/identifymanualpatches OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/getcvar OSFBASE435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/dskcoll4d OSFBASE435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/checksum_blt OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/ProcessBLTData OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
> ./usr/lbin/CreateBLTData OSFPAT00000017435 DELETED_FROM_SYSTEM
>
> As you can see, I no longer have /usr/sbin/dupatch. No way to install
> a new patch kit ! Some of the missing files in /usr/lbin prevent
> fverify(8) to work !
>
> I never run updadmin on this system before (its life began as an
> AS8200 running 4.0B + TCR 1.4). But I had ran this command a few times
> on various Digital UNIX systems before, and never saw this behaviour.
>
> We'll upgrade a sistership system tomorrow : I plan to copy the
> removed file from the new system. The list of files will be taken from
> /var/adm/smlogs/upd_obsolete_files. Do I need to restore another
> (hidden) files ?
>
>
>
> Additionnal question (may be related) :
>
> Patches 309 and 351 fail to install because they were unable to find
> the origin of some files, like /usr/lbin/sysconf and
> /usr/lbin/collect. Please note that these files were then removed by
> updadmin. I don't know if these events are related.
>
> I'm fairly sure that these files haven't been modified, except by
> Digital Unix upgrade procedures.
>
> Thx,
>
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Received on Mon Sep 18 2000 - 09:12:31 NZST