Hi,

I've been trying to up my service level to 5100-07, but somewhere
something went wrong, and now whenever I run the "errupdate" program, I
get this message:

errupdate:
0315-186 Internal error - string table corrupted.

Which means that, since this program is run as part of many installation
tasks, I cannot install anything on my machine any more. Possibly my
errupdate binary was somehow corrupted when updating some other fileset.
Does anyone know how I can restore my errupdate? I've found out it's part
of the bos.rte.serv_aid fileset, but I can't make installp reinstall the
original version. Does anyone know how to extract the files from a bff
file so I can do it manually?

Thanks,

Chris


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"Chris Brown" <chrisatthebrowndotnet@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<opshy7ozhulyx6hl@demeter>...
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to up my service level to 5100-07, but somewhere
> something went wrong, and now whenever I run the "errupdate" program, I
> get this message:
>
> errupdate:
> 0315-186 Internal error - string table corrupted.
>
> Which means that, since this program is run as part of many installation
> tasks, I cannot install anything on my machine any more. Possibly my
> errupdate binary was somehow corrupted when updating some other fileset.
> Does anyone know how I can restore my errupdate? I've found out it's part
> of the bos.rte.serv_aid fileset, but I can't make installp reinstall the
> original version. Does anyone know how to extract the files from a bff
> file so I can do it manually?
>
> Thanks,
>
restore -qTvf whatever.bff
restore -xvqdf whatever.bff ./relative/path/to/file

But .... that may not resolve you issue as it may be a library
problem, odm problem that gets called from teh errupdate command blah
blah blah..

you could try to roll back your ML level by rejecting all your updates
? you only applied them right ?

failing that, you should restore your mksysb from prior to the ML
updates, then on a test system apply your fixes in small batches until
you find the fileset that breaks errupdate.

you could also run truss on the errupdate command to see at what point
it breaks, this may give you a clue as to which lib, binary, odm class
is the issue, then you can go about fixing it.

HTH
Mark Taylor

> Chris

On 25 Nov 2004 03:23:37 -0800, mark taylor <mky@talk21.com> wrote:

> "Chris Brown" <chrisatthebrowndotnet@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:<opshy7ozhulyx6hl@demeter>...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to up my service level to 5100-07, but somewhere
>> something went wrong, and now whenever I run the "errupdate" program, I
>> get this message:
>>
>> errupdate:
>> 0315-186 Internal error - string table corrupted.
>>
>> Which means that, since this program is run as part of many installation
>> tasks, I cannot install anything on my machine any more. Possibly my
>> errupdate binary was somehow corrupted when updating some other fileset.
>> Does anyone know how I can restore my errupdate? I've found out it's
>> part
>> of the bos.rte.serv_aid fileset, but I can't make installp reinstall the
>> original version. Does anyone know how to extract the files from a bff
>> file so I can do it manually?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> restore -qTvf whatever.bff
> restore -xvqdf whatever.bff ./relative/path/to/file
>
> But .... that may not resolve you issue as it may be a library
> problem, odm problem that gets called from teh errupdate command blah
> blah blah..
>
> you could try to roll back your ML level by rejecting all your updates
> ? you only applied them right ?

errr... erm.... I used the default smit options, which unfortunately
committed them. I won't do that again of course.

>
> failing that, you should restore your mksysb from prior to the ML
> updates, then on a test system apply your fixes in small batches until
> you find the fileset that breaks errupdate.
>
> you could also run truss on the errupdate command to see at what point
> it breaks, this may give you a clue as to which lib, binary, odm class
> is the issue, then you can go about fixing it.

I thought about this, and I think it is the best idea. Thanks for your
advice.

Chris

>
> HTH
> Mark Taylor
>
>> Chris



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Mark,

Just to say thanks so much for the help - I have it all fixed now. I used
restore to extract the truss tool from a bff I downloaded and then used
that to find out that it was my /var/adm/ras/errtmplt file that had been
corrupted, which I then removed so it was recreated, which fixed the
problem.

Thanks again,
Chris

On 25 Nov 2004 03:23:37 -0800, mark taylor <mky@talk21.com> wrote:

> "Chris Brown" <chrisatthebrowndotnet@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:<opshy7ozhulyx6hl@demeter>...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to up my service level to 5100-07, but somewhere
>> something went wrong, and now whenever I run the "errupdate" program, I
>> get this message:
>>
>> errupdate:
>> 0315-186 Internal error - string table corrupted.
>>
>> Which means that, since this program is run as part of many installation
>> tasks, I cannot install anything on my machine any more. Possibly my
>> errupdate binary was somehow corrupted when updating some other fileset.
>> Does anyone know how I can restore my errupdate? I've found out it's
>> part
>> of the bos.rte.serv_aid fileset, but I can't make installp reinstall the
>> original version. Does anyone know how to extract the files from a bff
>> file so I can do it manually?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> restore -qTvf whatever.bff
> restore -xvqdf whatever.bff ./relative/path/to/file
>
> But .... that may not resolve you issue as it may be a library
> problem, odm problem that gets called from teh errupdate command blah
> blah blah..
>
> you could try to roll back your ML level by rejecting all your updates
> ? you only applied them right ?
>
> failing that, you should restore your mksysb from prior to the ML
> updates, then on a test system apply your fixes in small batches until
> you find the fileset that breaks errupdate.
>
> you could also run truss on the errupdate command to see at what point
> it breaks, this may give you a clue as to which lib, binary, odm class
> is the issue, then you can go about fixing it.
>
> HTH
> Mark Taylor
>
>> Chris



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