VMS 8.3 Alpha PCSI Problem

[Volker Halle]

Dieter,

I also tried the validate command on an existing VMS83A_UPDATE-V0400 .PCSI file, that I had recently installed successfully and I'm getting the same error from validate.

Volker.

[Volker Halle]

Dieter,

after the manual validate operation failed, I tried a PROD INSTAL VMS83A_UPDATE-V0400 in the same process and this operation succeeded to verify the file.

Puzzled,

Volker.

[The Brit]

Dieter,
Just a "shot in the dark". When you FTP'd the files, did you set type to BINARY?

Dave.

[Volker Halle]

Dieter,

CDSA$VALIDATE.EXE seems to implicitly require UNIX file name semantics:

$ validate /$9$dka0/kits/dec-axpvms-vms83a_update-v0400--4.pcsi$compressed

works fine, whereas

$ validate dec-axpvms-vms83a_update-v0400--4.pcsi$compressed

fails, although I set the default directory correctly.

Volker.

[The Brit]

Dieter,
Just a "shot in the dark". When you FTP'd the files, did you set type to BINARY?

I installed UPDATE V5.0 a couple of weeks ago without any issues (although I had previously installed V4.0, if that is relevent). I was just wondering if it was a problem going from Version 2.0 to 5.0, although I wouldn't have thought so.

Dave.

[Volker Halle]

Dieter,

the CSSMERR_SD_NO_TARGETFILE error message seems to indicate, that the 'input' file (i.e. the VMS83A_UPDATE-V0500--4.PCSI$COMPRESSED) does not exist. You can provoke this error message, if you provide a non-existing filename to CDSA$VALIDATE.

A SET WATCH FILE/CLASS=ALL preceeding the PRODUCT INSTALL VMS83A_UPDATE should show, which file access might fail...

Volker.

[Dieter Rossbach]

Volker,

DIETER>validate ./dec-axpvms-vms83a_update-v0500--4.pcsi$compressed
Validation of ./dec-axpvms-vms83a_update-v0500--4.pcsi$compressed SUCCEEDED.


OK, and what's next?

Dave,
1. FTP of the ZIPEXE-Files to a PC and than via FTP/binary to the VMS
2. FTP directly to the VMS-System (binary-mode)
3. creation of a Zip-File (ITRC-Service), download and expanding to get the ZIPEXE

in any of these cases the ZIPEXE-files run without problems and generated the PCSI$COMPRESSED and *_ESW files.

and in any of these cases, I cannot install them.

Strange

There might be a problem going from V0200 to V0500, but older updates are not on the ITRC-Servers.


Dieter

[Volker Halle · Accepted solution]

Dieter,

as a workaround, try to delete/rename to .PCSI$COMPRESSED_ESW file and install the patches without verification.

Or try PROD INSTAL/OPT=NOVALIDATE_KIT.

Nevertheless, I would still be interested in finding out what's wrong.

Volker.

[Volker Halle]

Dieter,

I've just downloaded VMS83A_SYS-V0600.ZIPEXE from the ftp.itrc.hp.com server and manually validated the file and tried a PRODUCT INSTALL - all verifications worked without a problem.

$ prod sho util
POLYCENTER Software Installation utility version: V8.3-054

Volker.

[Dieter Rossbach]

Volker,

I can install everything with /opt=noval.

(and did it)

It a solution, but not an answer ...

I'll continue searching


Dieter