In my ongoing adventures with Patch/iX (also using the LATEST versions
straight off their ftp site) one of my updates the other day failed also -
though it failed in Patch/iX while trying to create the CSLT. Patchi/iX
aborted telling me there was a file missing from INSTALL.SYS. In examining
the logs, I found the file (don't recall the name right now - it wasn't an
XL/NL but was an HP file) and copied it into the INSTALL.SYS group manually.
After which I ran Patch/iX, let it recover, and it was then able to create
the CSLT tape, which did let me successfully update the system.
Methinks there are a few problems with Patch/iX of late...
-Chris Bartram
-----Original Message-----
From: John Burke [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 6:05 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] More PATCHIX grief
Here is the setting. MPE/iX 6.5 PP3+. I'm trying to install the latest
TurboIMAGE patch, TIXMCX3B, by staging it.
Of course I downloaded the latest version of Patch/iX (you have to now
because the web page does not tell you what the current version is),
downloaded and unpacked the patch and proceeded with the installation.
Everything went fine - I've done this thing a number of times before - until
I went to reboot after setting the stage in Stageman. The system aborted
rather spectacularly:
ISL> start norecovery
MPE/iX launch facility
Initialize_genesis - Version : <<870204.1552>>
THU, MAR 13, 2003, 2:38:41 PM (y/n)?
[CDM]11 1 4 10
Initialize genesis completed.
Create Console Messages kso completed.
Initialize memory manager completed.
Initialize resident kernel completed.
Initialize volume management and mount the System Disk
Initialize volume management completed.
ERROR - from hpdir_find_path in stage_get_syslib_ufid
status - subsys: #518 info: # -1
File name = /SYS/hpstage/TIXMXC3B/NL.PUB.SYS
Cannot find NL in the new staging area.
Use ISL> STARTBASE NORECOVERY to recover.
SYSTEM ABORT 16 FROM SUBSYSTEM 146
SECONDARY STATUS: INFO = -1, SUBSYS = 518
SYSTEM HALT 7, $0010
I reboot and at the ISL prompt I go into stageisl and set the stage back to
BASE, cross my fingers, do a start norecovery and I'm back in business as if
nothing had happened (one of the nice features of Stage/iX). Sure enough, I
look in the staging area and there is no NL.PUB.SYS.
Patch/iX gave no errors. In fact during the initial process, it shows
NL.PUB.SYS being copied into INSTALL.SYS. However, when it gets to the point
of creating the staging area, while it mentions SL.PUB.SYS and XL.PUB.SYS,
it does not say anything about NL.PUB.SYS (I know because I went through the
entire process again from scratch looking for any mention of NL).
Anyone ever see something like this before?
John Burke
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