Hi,

I have just migrated an AIX 4.3 ML11 server to AIX 5.2 ML4. When check
my filesets (lppchk -v), I get the following:

lppchk: The following filesets need to be installed or corrected to
bring
the system to a consistent state:

bos.rte.bosinst v=4 (not installed; requisite
fileset)
bos.rte.bosinst 4.3.3.77 (usr: not installed, root:
COMMITTED)

Can anyone tell me how to safely remove this old fileset without
affecting the 5.2 bos.rte.bosinst? Or even how this could have
happened? I chose Migration as my upgrade method.

Thanks in advance!

lppchk -v -m3 to find out what filesets depends on bos.rte.bosinst v=4,
most likely you have some 3rd party s/w that needs earlier version of
bos.rte.bosinst which also would tell you that you probably would need
to upgrade that s/w to the one supported(or builded for) on 5.x

cdwells wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just migrated an AIX 4.3 ML11 server to AIX 5.2 ML4. When check
> my filesets (lppchk -v), I get the following:
>
> lppchk: The following filesets need to be installed or corrected to
> bring
> the system to a consistent state:
>
> bos.rte.bosinst v=4 (not installed; requisite
> fileset)
> bos.rte.bosinst 4.3.3.77 (usr: not installed, root:
> COMMITTED)
>
> Can anyone tell me how to safely remove this old fileset without
> affecting the 5.2 bos.rte.bosinst? Or even how this could have
> happened? I chose Migration as my upgrade method.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

This will remove it:
installp -ug <fileset name>

lppchk -vm3 gives me this:

Fileset sysback.rte 4.2.1.13 requires:
bos.rte.bosinst v=4

Fileset sysback.rte 4.2.1.15 requires:
bos.rte.bosinst v=4

Fileset sysback.rte 4.2.1.36 requires:
bos.rte.bosinst v=4


I was able to remove sysback.rte but still get errors and when I check
for my bosinst filesets, it looks like the old 4.3 bos.rte.bosinst is
still installed as well as the 5.2:

(/)> lslpp -l | grep bos.rte.bosinst
bos.rte.bosinst 5.2.0.40 COMMITTED Base OS Install
Commands
bos.rte.bosinst 4.3.3.77 COMMITTED Base OS Install
Commands


Is there any way to safely remove the 4.3.3.77 bos.rte.bosinst???

lppchk -vm3 gives me this:

Fileset sysback.rte 4.2.1.13 requires:
bos.rte.bosinst v=4

Fileset sysback.rte 4.2.1.15 requires:
bos.rte.bosinst v=4

Fileset sysback.rte 4.2.1.36 requires:
bos.rte.bosinst v=4


I was able to remove sysback.rte but still get errors and when I check
for my bosinst filesets, it looks like the old 4.3 bos.rte.bosinst is
still installed as well as the 5.2:

(/)> lslpp -l | grep bos.rte.bosinst
bos.rte.bosinst 5.2.0.40 COMMITTED Base OS Install
Commands
bos.rte.bosinst 4.3.3.77 COMMITTED Base OS Install
Commands


Is there any way to safely remove the 4.3.3.77 bos.rte.bosinst???

Hey all, I found the solution in the technical help DB for AIX. It
seems there's a bug in media released before the ML release in the
first half of 2003 for 5.1 and 5.2 which affects 4.3 systems running
bos.rte.bosinst at 4.3.3.77 (ML11). I took the following steps to
clean up my lppchk errors:

Fix your ODM directory: export ODMDIR=/etc/objrepos
Back up your ODM files before doing anything else:
cd /etc/objrepos
mkdir save_odm
cp * ./save_odm
ls save_odm (you should see your ODM files in there)
Fix the ODM:
LPP_ID=`LANG=C odmget -q name=bos.rte.bosinst lpp | grep lpp_id | awk
{'print $3'}`
odmdelete -q name=bos.rte.bosinst -o lpp
odmdelete -q lpp_name=bos.rte.bosinst -o product
odmdelete -q lpp_id=$LPP_ID -o history
odmdelete -q lpp_id=$LPP_ID -o inventory
Verify with lppchk -v (should now come back clean).