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18-Dec-2009

Booted E8.4
Now I got a bootable disk, nothing stopped installing 8.4, using the Personal Alpha, being easier to handle if something goes wrong.
I left the system as I had left it yesterday:

  • DKA0 = the original V8.3 system disk
  • DKA100 = the upgradedisk (the one created yesterday from the 8.4 backup saveset)
  • DKA200 = the disk destined to hold 8.4 for testing. The container is a copy of the disk loaded as DKA0 – only renamed and relabeled.
  • DKA300 = CD drive – in case I need it


    • So tonight I did the upgrade, by booting PA from DKA100 – and it worked without a problem, as could be expected. Next, I rebooted the system and that invoked SYSGEN, as shown in the logfile. But the next reboot imposed a problem: It hang because DKA200 could not be mounted; the reason is obvious:
    it’s the system disk. This mount is in SYSATRTUP_VMS.COM – without /NOASSSIST, that normnally isn’t required since the system is usually booted from DKA0.
    Anyway, I had to stop the emulator the hard way.
    Next step – which I should have done before – was moving the container holding 8.4 to DKA0, and define all normally used containers on their locations, so the only difference I have in this system is just the systemdisk.
    Now I booted the system. No real trouble, just that the webserver now has a problem:

    %WASD-I-STARTUP, begin
    %WASD-I-STARTUP, using SSL image
    %DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image SSL$LIBCRYPTO_SHR32
    -CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file $3$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSLIB]SSL$LIBCRYPTO_SHR32.
    EXE
    -SYSTEM-F-SHRIDMISMAT, ident mismatch with shareable image

    Since WASD on this system is linked against the HP-supplied SSL files, this might have been expected, though I would prefer it didn’t happen. But the easy way out is to relink WASD and start it; it now runs.

    No problem for MySQL – because that is linked against another SSL implementation, appearently. SWS did have a problem , but that has nothing to do with the upgrade; At least, I cannot think of a reason:

    Syntax error on line 5 of /apache$root/conf/mod_php.conf:
    Can't locate API module structure `php5_module' in file /apache$root/000000/modules/mod_php_apache-2_0.exe: function not implemented

    Next step is installing it on the new PWS. That means I first need to set it up with 8.3 – which may be a problem if the CD is bad indeed. Or install it fresh – but than I’ll have to burn a CD first.