Latest Support Plus Update startup checklist problem

[David Mores]

After having applied the June 2003 Support Plus patch update bundle B11.11.0306.4 on a C3600 system there is now an error during boot up:

/sbin/rc[41]: 048: The specific number is not valid for this command.

The checklist then starts but it is in dumb terminal format where it simply scrolls up rather than the normal screen at a time format - which was working just fine before the patch bundle update.

What happened to break the checklist display mode? Systems seems okay otherwise.

[Pete Randall]

David,


See:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x582d31ec5e34d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html



Pete

[Paul Sperry · Accepted solution]

Special Installation Instructions:

Shell now recognizes octal and hexa numbers inside arithmetic expression.

This may have impact on some of the scripts.
For example: rc.utils might have configured as follows:
let ROWS="$rows"
let COLS="$cols"

Now, if the rows/cols variables start with a 0, the shell will interpret the
data as octal numbers resulting in incorrect interpretations or errors. Hence we
advise users to change the rc.utils as follows:
let ROWS="${rows##*(0)}"
let COLS="${cols##*(0)}"

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You need patch PHCO_28316. This is a known issue.

Regards!

...JRF...

[David Mores]

Thank you, that solved the problem.

Dave