Re: probelms with oslevel -r after upgrading to latest fixes


Otto wrote: <Summarized>

I downloaded the 2 filesets inftfix said I needed.
invscout.ldb.2.2.0.2.bff
invscout.rte.2.2.0.9.bff

I run smit but get failures:
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Requisite Failures
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invscout.ldb 2.2.0.2 # Inventory Scout Logic
Database
invscout.rte 2.2.0.9 # Inventory Scout
Runtime

MISSING REQUISITES:
devices.chrp.base.diag 5.2.0.0 # Base Level Fileset
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To install the invscout fileset updates, it warns you that you must
have the base level of devices.chrp.base.diag installed. You do not.
The BASE fileset is not downloadable. You must get that from your
original AIX CDROMs.

However, you mentioned that you actually have a licensed version of AIX
5.3, not AIX 5.2, so you will not be able to find the missing filesets
on the CDs you obtained. You need the AIX 5.2 BASE cd package.

If you do not require the invscout package, you can try to simply
de-install its filesets if you want to see the oslevel show the right
value.

Try this command sequence:

instfix -ivk 5300-05-AIX_ML | grep : | grep not

This will show you what filesets are NOT at the right level for AIX 5.3
ML5

You can then use smit to de-install ANY filesets that are NOT required
for your system. For example, if you do not use invscout, then try to
remove it in smit:

smit install
- Software Maintenance and Utilities
- Remove Installed Software
- SOFTWARE name [invscout.ldb]

You can use the "Preview" option to see if removing it would be
successful or if it would require other packages to be removed as well.
If you do not use it and removing it does not require removal of a
required requisite, then you should be okay.

I just had a similar issue on an internal server here at my office. The
machine was installed at AIX 5.1 level, and then someone came along and
upgraded it to AIX 5.2 but did selective install of filesets and
inadvertently left some HP Korean drivers on the system at 5.1 level.
Since we don't use Korean here, I wanted to remove them but it refused
because it was at the wrong level. I had to go back and install the AIX
5.2 version of the HP driver just so I could tell it to remove it...go
figure...

Regards,

Steve

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