topic swinstall in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall

sheevm — Wed, 29 May 2002 13:37:38 GMT

I had 4.1 omni back installed in one of my server for testing. Now I need to install 3.5 and do some testing.

I swremove 4.1 and installing 3.5 but my install finishes evrything fine but when it is executing configure it gets stuck it never comes out. My log says it is executing configure as the last line.

Can anyone give me a hint what is going on here?

Thanks

Re: swinstall

Stefan Farrelly — Wed, 29 May 2002 13:40:53 GMT

Often when you remove software using swremove it does NOT delete the files associated with it. Youre configure script is probably confused between files left behind from the later version install.

To be safe swremove Omniback and then delete all of /opt/omni (rm -rf /opt/omni) and /var/opt/omni then try swinstalling omniback again.

Re: swinstall

Pete Randall — Wed, 29 May 2002 13:42:56 GMT

I don't think you can downgrade like that. I believe the OBII database gets upgraded during the 4.x install - I think you'd have to manually remove all traces of OBII.

Pete

Re: swinstall

PIYUSH D. PATEL — Wed, 29 May 2002 13:46:45 GMT

Hi,

You are going to a lower version of OBII. I think that you will have to manually remove all the files.

Pls backup the important datalist and database files before removing.

/etc/opt/omni directory is very important.
Most of the config files are in /etc/opt/omni directory. Does this directory contain old files ???

Check /var/opt/omni dir also.

Piyush

Re: swinstall

Sebastian Galeski_1 — Wed, 29 May 2002 13:47:06 GMT

first uninstall Omniback, swremove, than remove next subdirectory with rm -r
/opt/omni
/etc/opt/omni
/var/opt/omni

then install omniback again with swinstall

Re: swinstall

sheevm — Wed, 29 May 2002 14:25:40 GMT

I exactly did whatever you guys are suggesting but still it hangs when executing configure.

I stopped omni back processes. I swremove 3.5 once again. I deleted

/var/opt/omni
/etc/opt/omni
/opt/omni

I started install again.

Analysis is fine but hangs. My swremove no errors except a note saying configuration and database files were not removed.

But I MANUALLY REMOVED ALL OF THAT.

Re: swinstall

Wodisch — Wed, 29 May 2002 17:46:10 GMT

Hi,

do you have MWA (MeasureWareAgent) running on your system? Then stop it before trying to "swinstall" something (mwa stop).
Old and annoying bug, that...

HTH,
Wodisch