Re: Is 5.0.7 ready for production?

From: Bela Lubkin (belal_at_sco.com)
Date: 09/06/03 

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:06:50 GMT
To: scomsc@xenitec.ca

Mike Brown wrote:

> Also if you are updating an 'older' Compaq ProLiant that requires the
> EFS548 version it generates the following error on 5.0.7:
>
> i386ld: Symbol pci-debug in

"pci_debug", actually. Which shows that you're typing this rather than
cut-and-paste or redirecting to a file, tsk.

> /var/opt/K/SCO/link/1.1.1Hw/etc/conf/pack.d/cpqw/Driver.o
> is multiply defined.
>
> first defined in
> /var/opt/K/SCO/link/1.1.1Hw/etc/conf/pack.d/pci/Driver.o
> ERROR: Can not link-edit unix
>
>
> Obviously the EFS install fails and you don't get the required drivers.
> HP/Compaq is not showing any updated EFS although I did report this
> March 12th. Normally by now I would have updated a portion of my client
> base and would have something to report. The problem now is that we
> do not want to be supporting two versions of O/S, so have left most
> people on 5.0.6.

You can fix the above problem by patching the variable name in
pci/Driver.o to remove the conflict. The variable is internal to
pci/Driver.o, so its name can be changed without a matching change
elsewhere. The variable in Compaq's driver is internal to it. We just
have to resolve the name collision:

  # cd /etc/conf/pack.d/pci
  # cp -p Driver.o Driver.o.orig
  # strings -a -o Driver.o | grep -i debug
  18790 pci_debug
  # bs=1 count=9 oseek=18790 of=Driver.o
  9+0 records in
  9+0 records out
  # strings -a -o Driver.o | grep -i debug
  18790 pci_Debug
  # cd /etc/conf/cf.d
  # ./link_unix

> I am testing Progress 9.1b on 5.0.7, with a ProLiant ML530G3. So far
> the system has locked up about 6 times with the database running, no
> panic dumps as the system is completely locked. The server runs fine
> for days without Progress running, locks up in a few hours after
> the database is started. No idea why yet.

Is this without database activity?? Doesn't the Compaq watchdog stuff
kick in and reboot the system? (Not that that would be much better, but
it's odd to actually _hang_ a system with a watchdog in it...)

>Bela<

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