HP-UX 11i Upgrade Problem

[Scott Hanson_1]

We are upgrading HP-UX 11.00 to 11.11 and are getting the following error message:

ERROR: "hamilton:/": 8 filesets have a version with a higher revision number already installed.

This then causes several packages not to be selected for upgrade, i.e. LVM, JFS etc. I don't want to continue the upgrade without these critical packages.

Any Ideas?

[Shahul]

Hi

U may need to remove the newly installed bundles or fileset before proceeding with upgradation. Or go for fresh installation.

Best of luck
Shahul

[Martin Johnson]

Check in /var/adm/sw/swagent.log to determine which filesets are causing the problem. The best solution would be to swremove the filesets, do the upgrade, then restore the removed filesets.

HTH
Marty

[Pete Randall]

Scott,

This is a recurring discussion in the forums. You could do a search on "install" but I'll save you the trouble. The general consensus seems to be that you're better off to go with a cold install, then vgimport your data disks. It saves headaches of just this sort.

Good luck,
Pete

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

I would suggest a cold install of HP UX 11.11 rather then a upgrade from 11.0 to 11.11. Since upgrading the HPUX OS has many problems and issues involved.

Take a full backup of you data and install fresh OS. Or else you can always take a Ignoite backup of your existing root filesystem thro make_tape_recovery.

After loading the fresh OS on the root disk you can vgimport all your data.

Piyush

[Everett R. Stroman]

Scott,

Its been my experience that when upgrade work they work extremely well, but when they fail the bottom fails out. I'm not saying its impossible to have a successfull upgrade after you run into problem, but it will cost you more then desired downtime and many man hours. It at all possible I shoot for a cold Install. This will require a little more planning and knowledge of your system present onfigurations so you humpty dumpty back together.

As suggested take a full backup of your system and use Ignite-UX to make a bootable recovery tape of your VG00, if you need ignite following this link: http://www.software.hp.com/software/HPsoftware/IUX/index.html

Verify all third party software if any will run on HP-UX 11.11.
archive critical 11.00 files using tar:
in /etc I would get hosts, passwd, group, PATH issue, resolv.conf, nsswitch.conf, and servies.
Also use tar to save off you /home.
Dont forget about any special start scripts you might have in /sbin/rc directories.

Create mapfiles for all non-VG00 volume groups.

Also print out a ioscan, vgdisplay and and a
swlist.

Once your sure you have everything you need to rebuild your system, perform the install and put back all config. files. Only after saving off the orignal 11.11 file first. vgimport your non-vg00 volume groups.

If you do your homework, a cold install can be very successfull.


Good luck,

Everett