AIX

Need some help, just installed a new aix box with aix 5.3

honda # oslevel -s
5300-05-CSP-0000

i got a package from ibm which told me that it was a cumulative patch to upgrade my 5.3 TL 5 to TL 12. I downloaded it, took a long time, after installing using smitty, i get failed.

so after doing some searching on the net i did this command which should show me some filesets that were missing, (oh i read the logs and found some filesets and requisites are missing)

honda # oslevel -r -l 5300-12
Fileset Actual Level Recommended ML
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X11.loc.en_US.Dt.rte 5.3.0.50 5.3.0.60
bos.msg.en_US.rte 5.3.0.0 5.3.11.0
csm.client 1.5.1.0 1.7.1.0
csm.core 1.5.1.1 1.7.1.0
csm.deploy 1.5.1.1 1.7.1.0
csm.msg.EN_US.core 1.4.0.0 1.7.0.0
csm.msg.en_US.core 1.4.0.0 1.7.0.0
devices.msg.en_US.common.IBM.sni.ml 1.2.0.0 1.2.0.1

so as a test i downloaded csm.core 1.7.1.0 and just did that install and it also failed, so i am not sure what i am doing wrong,

i have no space or bandwidth constraints, isnt there somewhere i could find a cumulative patch, like is HP, including all pre requisites and filesets

When you tried to update csm.core did the log show it was missing a requisite fileset or ? Can you paste the smit.log entry here?

Hi,

As per you have mentioned, you have to install these file sets from your original 5.3 Tl 5 cd which is your base cd. Then run the new Tl 12 update and then check the oslevel.

homeyjoe, my smit.log has quite a bit of output, i am not sure which one of the sections is the one you need, especially i cannot figure out how to get a new snapshot, i dont want to post so many lines on this message board, i am new to this board, can i upload file here?

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vjm, i am looking at the content of my cds with the smitty install and list supplemental filesets, and they seem to be the "actual level" and not the "Recommended ML" from the oslevel -r -l 5300-12 output, am i dont somthing wrong, also before i started to do a list supplemental, i put in all the cd' s and did a smitty update software and just put the path of the cd in the and it came back with fileset already up to date

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vjm, it is really weird what happened, i used my base install cd's and found the X11 and installed it, after installing it, i did a oslevel -r -l 5300-12 and it actually told me i was missing more filesets then my original oslevel -r -l 5300-12 output, so i went to the directory where i downloaded the update filesets which was supposed to bring me upto 5300-12 tl level and this time it installed with an ok in smitty and my oslevel is now showing 5300-12-03-1107, which is what i was expecting, anyway, seems i am ok now, but dont really know what to do the next time this happens, but thanks you both for the help