Henry, You're absolutely correct: I created a proper symbolic link for /hp-ux and everything worked like a charm. I was familiar with the installation readme instructions, but made an unfortunate typing mistake when creating the symbolic link for /hp-ux a week ago: [/] # ls -l /hp-uxlrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 12 Jul 15 15:32 /hp-ux -> /stand/vmuix <-- before: missing letter "n" [/] # rm /hp-ux [/] # ln -s /stand/vmunix /hp-ux [/] # ls -l /hp-uxlrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 13 Jul 22 14:26 /hp-ux -> /stand/vmunix <-- after: a proper link Thank you very much for your help!
To satisfy your (and everyone else's) curiosity, this small organization still running PI/open as a production server has been quite happy with its investment: developed custom INFO/BASIC applications on Prime INFORMATION in 1988-1993, upgraded to PI/open in 1995, and hasn't changed much since then. At the time when the HP 9000 hardware and the PI/open database reached their vendors' "end of life", this organization didn't have the resources to move the custom applications to a new platform and decided to leave the system running "as is". Now the move is being planned. Natasha zagskyzag...@hotmail.com _________________________________________ > From: hun...@hitech.com > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:13:42 -0700 > Subject: Re: [U2] PI/open installation question > > Hi Natasha, > > I suspect the problem is a missing link to the HP-UX kernel. The location > moved between HP-UX 9.x and HP-UX 10.x. It's documented in the installation > readme: > > 5.4 Support for PI/open on HPUX 10.0 > ------------------------------------ > > Release 3.6.1 is expected to work on HPUX release 10.0. At HPUX release > 10, the default shell is a posix compliant shell, not the Bourne shell as > it was in previous releases. PI/open relies on a Bourne shell for many > shell scripts and commands. To insure a consistent Bourne shell, a link > has been made in /bin to a bourne shell. This is done at both release 9.0 > and 10.0, and is located in /bin/pish. You must not delete this link. If > you upgrade from HPUX 9.0 to HPUX 10.0 without reinstalling PI/open, this > link will no longer be valid. To solve this situation, either completely > reinstall PI/open from tape or issue the following command: > > ln /usr/old/bin/sh /bin/pish > > At HPUX release 10, the kernel file /hp-ux will no longer exist by default. > PI/open needs the file /hp-ux to exist in order for it to be booted. If > this file does not exist on HPUX 10, you must create this link yourself. > This can be done with the command: > > ln /stand/vmunix /hp-ux > > At this point, PI/open should run without any other changes needed. > > Just out of curiosity, why haven't you moved to UniVerse? > > Best regards, > > Henry Unger > Hitech Systems, Inc. > http://www.hitech.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Natasha Zagsky > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:17 AM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: [U2] PI/open installation question > > [Also posted to Usenet newsgroups: comp.sys.prime, comp.databases.pick] > > I'm setting up a test server and I am running into a problem during the > installation process. If you're familiar with installing PI/open, please > help. > > Database: PI/open Rev. 3.6.2.r6> Operating System: HP-UX B.10.20> Hardware: > HP 9000 Series 800 System > > >From "PI/open Installation Menu" (UNIX script ./pi_install)> I execute > >option "6 updateisys Update ISYS account"> and receive this error > >message: > Updating /usr/isys ...updateisys: Failed to bootstrap shared PI/open. > > The message (OS: No such file or directory) in &PILOG& WARN.0 is obviously > suspicious, but I have no indication what file or directory it refers to.> > Can anyone with experience installing PI/open make any suggestions? > > Thank you in advance, > > Natasha Zagsky> zag...@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Look 'em in the eye: FREE Messenger video chat http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9734386 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
