Upgrade from 4.0F -> 5.0A failure

From: <A.Moar_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 09:59:20 +1000 (EST)

Hi all,

We've recently made a failed attempt at upgrading one of our 8400s from
4.0f PK4 to 5.0A on our way to 5.1. There's nothing particularly unusual
with our configuration (that I'm aware of), but it does use LSM mirroring
on the root and usr partitions.

The log of the end of the upgrade follows:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
*** Load Tru64 UNIX V5.0A Operating System ( Rev 1094 ) Software Subsets
***
/updmnt/isl/setld: tail: not found

90 subsets will be installed.

Loading subset 1 of 90 ...

Base System
   Copying from /updmnt/ALPHA/BASE (disk)
/updmnt/isl/setld: no home directory
/updmnt/isl/updeng: head: not found
Exiting Update Installation...
/updmnt/isl/updeng: tail: not found
/updmnt/isl/updeng: comm: not found
/updmnt/isl/updeng: xargs: not found
mv: rename /tmp/swdb.filter.2048 to /tmp/swdb.sts.2048: No such file or
directory

Removing temporary update installation files...done.

A log of the Update Installation has been recorded in the file
/var/adm/smlogs/update.log.

8361:/sbin/rm: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: cannot map libc.so
/sbin/installupdate: mount: not found
8363:/sbin/grep: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: cannot map libc.so

-------------------------------------------------------------------

As you can imagine, this left the machine in a pretty much unusable state.
I've looked through the /updmnt/isl/setld script (from the v5.0A OS CD)
and I can't work out why it couldn't find "tail" in the first place. My
path was fine:

# echo $PATH
/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local
#

and I had /usr mounted. The only thing I can think of is that for some
reason "tail" and other commands got removed before the upgrade.

Has anyone seen anything similar before or have any ideas where things may
have gone wrong. In any event, I think next time we'll try for the 4.0f
-> 4.0g -> 5.1.

Thanks for any help,

Andrew
-- 
        Andrew Moar : Ph +61 3 9479 1505  email A.Moar_at_latrobe.edu.au
         Unix Environment Specialist, Information Technology Services
                    La Trobe University, Bundoora
Received on Tue Apr 03 2001 - 00:00:49 NZST

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