Upgrade 10.20 -> 11.00 problems.

[Jeremy Loukinas]

While updating from 10.20 to 11.0 I had the following occur.

Compiling /stand/build/conf.c...
cpp: "/usr/conf/space.h.d/../h/../h/../h/../h/mp.h", line 20: error 4036: Can't open include file '../h/netstatistic.h'.
cpp: "/usr/conf/space.h.d/core-hpux.h", line 26: error 4036: Can't open include file '../h/crashconf.h'.
cpp: "/usr/conf/space.h.d/core-hpux.h", line 435: error 4036: Can't open include file '../h/mod_obj.h'.
cpp: "/usr/conf/space.h.d/../h/map.h", line 48: warning 2001: Redefinition of macro NSYSMAP.
cpp: "/usr/conf/space.h.d/core-hpux.h", line 758: warning 2001: Redefinition of macro NCSIZE.
cpp: "/stand/build/conf.c", line 27: error 4036: Can't open include file '/usr/conf/h/mod_conf.h'.
cpp: "/stand/build/conf.c", line 28: error 4036: Can't open include file '/usr/conf/h/mod_k.h'.
*** Error exit code 1

Stop.
make failure.
ERROR: The command "/usr/sbin/mk_kernel", which is used to rebuild
the kernel, has failed. Because kernel-related filesets were
installed, this command must be executed by "swinstall",
without failures, before the load can continue. Check the
above output for details about the failure.
NOTE: The Install Phase has suspended. Check the above output for
reasons.


I looked for the files it is missing on multiple HPUX 10.20 server and don't see them anymore..

Jeremy

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Jeremy

Upgrade - NO

Install - yes

The HP-UX upgrade is always fraught with problems and more often that not fails.

It is by far better and safer to do a fresh install after doing full backups and an ignite on the server.


Paula

[Jeremy Loukinas]

To late now. :-)

Any advice?

[Pete Randall]

Jeremy,

By a vast majority, the consensus here on the forums is that the 10.20 to 11.x upgrade process is fraught with peril. The best thing you can do for yourself at this point is to start a cold install process.


Pete

[Jeremy Loukinas]

Ok does anyone have any better advice besides I should have done this different.:-)

LOL...

Sun Solaris upgrades just peachy.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Do you have all of you system info in hardcopy?

Netconf , hosts lvol config etc.


Can you interupt boot and the boot on vmunix.prev?


Paula

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Do you have all of you system info in hardcopy?

Netconf , hosts lvol config etc.


Can you interupt boot and then boot on vmunix.prev?


Paula

[Jeremy Loukinas]

Well luckily I have an image before I started on our network Ignite server.

I would really think HP would have there act together enough to publish a product that is upgradable.

Jeremy

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Fine

Your are now cooking.

Restore the server from its image and then plan a fresh install.

Paula

[Pete Randall]

Jeremy,

The 11.0 to 11i upgrade, in fact, seems to work quite well. It's just the 10.20 one, sorry to say. I honestly don't know what you can do to continue at this point. I would say that you either need to fall back with your Ignite image or continue with a cold install. Sorry.


Pete

[John Payne_2]

It's just that there were SO many changes from HPUX 10.20 to HPUX 11.O that you are really talking about 2 different beasts. (Hence the rev. change from HPUX 10 to HPUX 11) You had very good foresite in making a recovery image.

Now, why is it that you wanted to upgrade? If you can, you should think about moving all critical data to a volume group that can be exported, then cold install and import the volume. (Or like Paula said, "Cold Install then restore form tape.")

Hope it helps

John

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Also

Do not worry about management and that you said you were doing the upgrade today.

They will respect you more if back out of the problem and then go for a fresh install of HP-UX 11.

Paula

[Martin Johnson]

You seem to want to ignore the advise to do a cold install. Why? You are already experiencing headaches, and even if you do fix this one, there will probably be more errors. Even if, by chance, you do successfully upgrade, it will take many more hours than a cold install.

It took me from the beginning of September to tha end of January to upgrade 4 systems. Each system required multiple attempts as the system disk became unbootable during the upgrade process. The final successful upgrades took between 26 and 30 hours on the systems.

My advise would be to restore your system from backup, get all your system info: network, lvols, etc. Then do a cold install.

If you really insist on upgrading, restore system from backup, then do "swlist -l fileset -a state". All your fileset should be configured. If not, use swconfig or reinstall.
Make sure you have the latest consolidated patches installed, especially for LVM.

HTH
Marty

[Elena Leontieva]

Jeremy,

About three years ago we ( ASE and myself ) performed two successfull upgrades from 10.20 to 11.00 on K460 and D320 servers (sounds like a miracle now). We did a lot of planning and I attach our action plan. If you go this direction, hope you find it useful.

Elena.

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

The problem in your upgrade could also happend
because you upgrate to 11.00/64bit and the 10.20 is 32bit, i also once try and couldn't succede so the best is full install from beginning and the to take from backup all the data that you need.

Always problems with upgrate in hpux.

Caesar