Problem to upgrade from 6.2 to 7.3 on a restored system disk

[Volker Halle]

Steph,

[SYS*]SYSCOMMON.DIR must have the same File-ID as [000000]VMS$COMMON.DIR - you can check this with DIR/FILE_ID

If one of those directory entries would be missing, you can create the appropriate ALIAS entry with

$ SET FILE/enter=alias-filespec filename

But first find out, what's really wrong here and be careful with SET FILE/REMOVE and SET FILE/ENTER.


Check $ HELP BACK/ALIAS regarding the use of the /ALIAS qualifier.

Volker.

[Bojan Nemec]

Steph,

I agree with Ian that you must check the SCSI termination. Disk on/offline is often caused by bad SCSI bus termination (not terminated or terminated on more than one point). Some SCSI devices have a SCSI termination switch.

How about Console Firmware version? Have you upgraded the Console Firmware from the CD which comes with the distribution?

Bojan

[Guillou_2]

Hi all and thanks for your help,

I didn't do an upgrade firmware, i agree that i probably have an hardware problem...

Files have the same id, but if i do a show dev/file sys$sysdevice on the restored system the file have the form
[syscommon.xxxx]xxx.xxx
on the production server this command sends something like [vms$common.xxxx]xxx.xxx

If the file id are the same, could this be a problem for the upgrade?

Steph

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

Ah, yes. Standard error. The problem is that BACKUP has put the wrong file name in the file header.

$ set default disk:[000000]
$ rename VMS$COMMON.DIR SYSCOMMON.DIR
$ rename SYSCOMMON.DIR VMS$COMMON.DIR

[Volker Halle]

and here is the pointer to the full article describing this problem and the solutions/workarounds:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/askkcs/hpcg/215_0_158064811_3753069.html

Volker.

[Guillou_2]

Thanks all for your precious help

Changing the disk solve the problem of "mount verify".

In order to correct the problem on vms$common/syscommon after a restore we have done:
$ set default disk:[000000]
$ rename VMS$COMMON.DIR SYSCOMMON.DIR
$ rename SYSCOMMON.DIR VMS$COMMON.DIR

All the upgrade is now ok

regards

Stephs