But OnlineJFS *IS* installed.

[Ian Killer_1]

Hi...

I've already got a rabit in my other trail. Re-installing the 18543 didn't help. All looks good, but I still get the "OnlineJFS needs to be installed to use the -b option" message.

Here's my previous trail...
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x34d4a848deccd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Find my new /usr/conf/master.d/vxfs file attached.

Help!!!

[Ian Kidd_1]

Ian,

maybe OnlineJFS is improperly installed. This is the output of swlist -l fileset JFS on one of my systems (HPUX 11.00 w/system name blanked out for company security reasons):

swlist -l fileset JFS
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "xxxxxxxx"...
#
# Target: xxxxxxxx:/
#

# JFS 3.3 JFS 3.3 base filesystem
JFS.JFS-BASE-KRN 3.3 JFS 3.3 filesystem commands
JFS.JFS-BASE2-KRN 3.3 JFS 3.3 filesystem kernel libraries - 64 bit
JFS.JFS-ENG-A-MAN 3.3 JFS 3.3 filesystem man pages

do you get a similar result? By the way, your name makes me feel like I should be watching my back! (just Kidding)

[Steven E. Protter]

You have been hurt by bad advice.

You CAN NOT re-install PHKL_18543.

Its the LITS(Line in the Sand) patch, and reinstalling it corrupts your system file and messes up a lot of other patches.

Read the text file on that one with regards to reinstalling. It will scare you.

I spent a few all nighters and literally MONTHS recovering from when I did that to myself in August of 2001.

Ouch.

Now, how to fix it.

First do a damage control check.

check_patches

Look at that report and investigate. You can get that guy by doing a search at itrc patches for check_paches.

swverify \*

You should see a ton of errors.

When I did this, HP Support told me to reinstall the OS.

I could not do that.

What I did was a force reinstall of every single damaged patch.

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x reinstall=false -s /tmp/PATCH_DEP.depot \*

I eventually built a big patch depot and did it en masse. Three of the damaged patches were unobtainable, so I lived without them.

I laid down my system file from a backup and was finally able to compile kernels.

As I recall PHKL_18543 ended up a mess after that and I had to do a swconfigure \* to fix that, maybe a few tweaks after that.

That particular system still hickups once in a while but is being retired in a few weeks, G-d willing.

I will be available Saturday night to interact. It might even be worth a phone call. I can arrange that.

I feel your pain sir.

Because of the fact that I missed that trouble and PHKL_18543 shows up as a dependency in hundreds of patches I do patch depot installs with this command line to protect myself from my fingers.

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x reinstall=false -s /tmp/DEP.depot \*

This prevents accidental reinstall.

SEP

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Well Steven made a great offer

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x5673402f24d5d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

There are more then one off these link available at search itrc.

Call HP just in case they made a good sollution for this patch.

Robert-Jan.

[Ian Killer_1]

Mr Kidd...

My old man is a doctor, so you're covered. :-)

Please find the output from your requested command attached.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Reinstalling OnlineJFS product will not hurt you. If that is the case, HP wouldn't sell it as a seperate product.

But if you already installed PHKL_18543 and are seeing errors now, then the better approach to fix everything would be to reinstall the last known best patch bundles just to make it clean. Install OnlineJFS and then install the patch bundles.

If you do

/usr/sbin/swlist -l file PHKL_18543

then you can see all the files it is going to install. There is a good chance that this reinstall might have overwritten files that were patched by the latest patches.

Have a make_tape_recovery tape each for every kernel change you make.

-Sri

[Ian Kidd_1]

Well, your output looks good to me. Since I'm out of ideas, I can only suggest the method that works on that OTHER operating system: reinstall. SOMETHING is not right and maybe a reinstall of OnlineJFS will fix it.

However, of more concern is Steven's post. After all, there's a work-around for not having OnlineJFS (lvextend, umount, extendfs, mount; possibly booting to single-user mode for some LVs). But Steven's post is some scary stuff. That's something that will probably need to be verified by you.

[Steven E. Protter]

Do a force reinstall of Online JFS once you make sure PHKL_18543 is properly installed. Make sure the install doesn't include 18543.

SEP