Problem installing OVMS 8.3A Update 11

[Jon Pinkley]

The VMS83A_PTHEAD-V0200 patch is picky.

I just upgraded a system for 7.3-2 to 8.3 and applied the then current VMS83A_UPDATE-v1000 and then all the other patches that were not included (only latest versions). I had scripted updates, and put PTHREAD last, but it failed. Logging out and back in wasn't sufficient, it required a reboot before PTHREAD would install. But I was then able to install TCPIP 56 ECO4 without a reboot. So there was the AUTOGEN reboot, then applied PCSI, loggedout and back in, applied system update 10, rebooted, then applied VMS83A_TZ, VMS83A_JOBCTL, VMS83A_LOGIN, VMS83A_BACKUP, VMS83A_TDF, VMS83A_XFC, VMS83A_SHADOWING, VMS83A_FIBRE_SCSI, VMS83A_RMS, VMS83A_SYS.

REBOOT required here

Then installed VMS83A_PTHREAD, TCPIP 5.6-9ECO4

Reboot, then other layered products.

Attached is a product show history and the command procedure I used to apply the post update 10 patches.

This seemed to work.

[Sandeep Ramavana]

Jon,

PTHREAD kit has a dependency on SYS and TDF kits. The SYS kit, however, requires are reboot. Hence, the system should be rebooted before installing the PTHREAD kit (and after installing SYS kit).

Best Regards,
Sandeep

[EdgarZamora_1]

"Thanks for reporting this. We have now put this kit on hold. We will work on this and release a new kit."


Sandeep, thank you for the quick response. We appreciate HP engineering listening to us here.

[EdgarZamora_1]

To close out this thread... FYI, HP updated the release notes of VMS83A_UPDATE-V1100 basically saying if you encounter this error, ignore the error message and continue with the installation...

7.5 Special Installation Instructions:

During the installation of this UPDATE kit, you may see the
following error during the installation of PTHREAD kit.

%PCSI-I-PRCOUTPUT, output from subprocess follows ...
%IMGACT-F-SYMVECMIS, shareable image symbol vector table mismatch
-IMGACT-F-FIXUPERR, error when PTHREAD$RTL referenced
SYS$BASE_IMAGE

%PCSI-E-INSTALLERR, error executing DCL INSTALL command
-IMGACT-F-SYMVECMIS, shareable image symbol vector table mismatch
%PCSI-E-OPFAILED, operation failed Terminating is strongly
recommended. Do you want to terminate? [YES]

You should answer "NO" to this question and allow the installation
to continue. PTHREAD kit has a dependency on the SYS kit. PTHREAD
kit expects that the system be rebooted after installing SYS kit.
The error is thrown as both the dependent kits are part of the same
UPDATE kit, and there is no interim reboot of the system.

It is important to note that once the UPDATE kit is installed and
the system is rebooted, this error will not impact the system and
the correct images will be in use.

[Hoff]

So we have a kit that tosses an error, and (not having looked) we probably now have two different V11 kits around now with two sets of checksums, differing by the release notes?

[EdgarZamora_1]

Well I have the original kit and the new kit so I checked the checksums and yes, they are different (as expected).

[Steve Schultz_1]

Just wondering why HP would release a patch with an error in it and then tell the customer to ignore it? Why not fix the patch to handle the error?

[Hoff]

It looks like the PCSI kit is trying to install an image, and it's detecting a mismatch. The install will be invoked again at bootstrap. Things might get hairy if you kept running after loading this patch, though.

[Jan van den Boogaard_1]

No errors were seen when updating 1 of our systems with the patch order below ( one reboot after SYS V16 en one reboot after UPDATE V11 and INSTALL REPLACE SYS$LIBRARY:PTHREAD$RTL.EXE after installing PTHREAD V2 (no reboot) )


$ prod sh hist
------------------------------------ ----------- ----------- --- -----------
PRODUCT KIT TYPE OPERATION VAL DATE
------------------------------------ ----------- ----------- --- -----------
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_UPDATE V11.0 Patch Install Val 14-DEC-2009
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_PTHREAD V2.0 Patch Install Val 14-DEC-2009
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_TDF V1.0 Patch Install Val 14-DEC-2009
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_SYS V16.0 Patch Install Val 14-DEC-2009
DEC AXPVMS TCPIP V5.6-9ECO4 Full LP Install Val 14-OCT-2009
DEC AXPVMS TCPIP V5.6-9ECO3 Full LP Remove - 14-OCT-2009
HP VMS TDC V2.3-18 Full LP Install Val 09-JUL-2009
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_LOGIN V2.0 Patch Install Val 09-JUL-2009
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_JOBCTL V3.0 Patch Install Val 09-JUL-2009
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_SHADOWING V3.0 Patch Install Val 09-JUL-2009
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_TZ V1.0 Patch Install Val 09-JUL-2009
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_COPY V2.0 Patch Install Val 09-JUL-2009
DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_UPDATE V10.0 Patch Install Val 09-JUL-2009

[EdgarZamora_1]

> No errors were seen when updating 1 of our systems with the patch
> order below ( one reboot after SYS V16 en one reboot after
> UPDATE V11 and INSTALL REPLACE SYS$LIBRARY:PTHREAD$RTL.EXE
> after installing PTHREAD V2 (no reboot) )
> $ prod sh hist
> ------------------------------------ ----------- ----------- --- -----------
> PRODUCT KIT TYPE OPERATION VAL DATE
> ------------------------------------ ----------- ----------- --- -----------
> DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_UPDATE V11.0 Patch > Install Val 14-DEC-2009
> DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_PTHREAD V2.0 Patch Install Val 14-DEC-2009
> DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_TDF V1.0 Patch Install Val 14-DEC-2009
> DEC AXPVMS VMS83A_SYS V16.0 Patch Install Val 14-DEC-2009

Right... but you really don't need to install PTHREAD and TDF separately since they're in the UPDATE kit. Install SYS V16, reboot, then install Update V11 will work fine.