swinstall

[sheevm]

I had 4.1 omni back installed in one of my server for testing. Now I need to install 3.5 and do some testing.

I swremove 4.1 and installing 3.5 but my install finishes evrything fine but when it is executing configure it gets stuck it never comes out. My log says it is executing configure as the last line.

Can anyone give me a hint what is going on here?

Thanks

[Stefan Farrelly]

Often when you remove software using swremove it does NOT delete the files associated with it. Youre configure script is probably confused between files left behind from the later version install.

To be safe swremove Omniback and then delete all of /opt/omni (rm -rf /opt/omni) and /var/opt/omni then try swinstalling omniback again.

[Pete Randall]

I don't think you can downgrade like that. I believe the OBII database gets upgraded during the 4.x install - I think you'd have to manually remove all traces of OBII.

Pete

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

You are going to a lower version of OBII. I think that you will have to manually remove all the files.

Pls backup the important datalist and database files before removing.

/etc/opt/omni directory is very important.
Most of the config files are in /etc/opt/omni directory. Does this directory contain old files ???


Check /var/opt/omni dir also.

Piyush

[Sebastian Galeski_1]

first uninstall Omniback, swremove, than remove next subdirectory with rm -r
/opt/omni
/etc/opt/omni
/var/opt/omni

then install omniback again with swinstall

[sheevm]

I exactly did whatever you guys are suggesting but still it hangs when executing configure.

I stopped omni back processes. I swremove 3.5 once again. I deleted

/var/opt/omni
/etc/opt/omni
/opt/omni

I started install again.

Analysis is fine but hangs. My swremove no errors except a note saying configuration and database files were not removed.

But I MANUALLY REMOVED ALL OF THAT.

[Wodisch]

Hi,

do you have MWA (MeasureWareAgent) running on your system? Then stop it before trying to "swinstall" something (mwa stop).
Old and annoying bug, that...

HTH,
Wodisch