Re: oslevel changes after hard reboot
From: Basil Holloway (REMOVECAPITALSfarl7_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 09/29/05
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:31:05 GMT
"Larry Coon" <lmcoon_nospam@cox.net> wrote in message
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> We have a new sysadmin who is still learning and a little out
> of his depth at this one. We have two systems that originally
> ran AIX 4.3.3, and were upgraded to 5.1.0 about a year ago.
> We had a power outage and backup generator failure, so these
> two systems went down non-gracefully. One came up fine. The
> other came up, but is now back at oslevel 4.3.3.
>
> Does anybody have any idea what might have happened, and more
> importantly, what we can do to fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Larry Coon
> University of California
Larry
I posted on another news group:-
"Rick I see that the 4.3.3.11 update copies NT4 SP6A in that if basic
operating system is amended, patch has to be reapplied."
Rick replied to me
"The ML 11 update is actually better than it sounds... basically they
mean that if you intentionally backlevel any of the filesets, you would
have to update those filesets to be able to get the "oslevel" command
to report you at the ML 11 fix level.
You might say, "That's obvious!", but you might not believe the number
of people who have complained that "oslevel" was not properly reporting
their maintenance release level after they "shot themselves in the
foot".
If you follow the "standard path", and install all of your desired
optional packages from your 4 AIX 4.3.3 installation CDs before you
apply ML 11, you're unlikely to have any backleveling issues. The
exception would be if you install a package that has some BOS component
that you did not install as a prerequisite. Once those packages are
installed, you'd be backleveled. At that point, you could install just
the updates you need from the ML 11 files, or you could get the updates
from the IBM fix database (though you never know when IBM might remove
AIX 4.3.3 from the database). The fix tracking features of AIX are
light-years ahead of what any version of Windows provides.
Rick Ekblaw "
It would seem you have to apply the patch(4.3.3.11) and/or upgrade(5.1.0)
again.
Hope this assists.
Basil
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