System Updates
A few weeks ago the next update was released by HP – one that consolidates a lot of updates since, well, some time ago. There were no patches excluded – so it would conclude all that I missed. In the following days there wer 4 or 5 product patches, so I downloaded them all and installed the whole bunch. A number of them required a reboot, so I pusched them all onto Diana and did one reboot. Probably not the best solution but the fastest. A full backup of the system disk takes at least 30 minutes, and each reboot takes another 5….When it would go wrong, I would be able to revert – of course I made a backup of the system disk in advance 🙂
On-line, /IGNORE=INTERLOCK – which is no problem at all since the files that are used on each cluster memner are taken off the system disk.
Testing after reboot: the blogs all work, MySQL is working properly. The VMS wiki works as well, so that part is set up correctly as well. I added a small chapter on patches.
Well – there is one problem: MySQL. Again.
I did the updates using CSWB directly on the VMS box. This has a huge memroy footprint, and so does MySQL, and MoinMoin, Adding up, it’s been too much for MySQL so it crashed, AFTER the update was done.
Well, it’s that way.