Originally posted by: Canuck719

My OS is AIX 7.1

# rpm -ivh libiconv-1.14-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:libiconv-1.14-2                  ################################# [100%]
add shr4.o shared members from /usr/lib/libiconv.a to  /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a
add shr.o shared members from /usr/lib/libiconv.a to  /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a
ar: Cannot open or remove a file containing a running program.
ar: 0707-113 The fopen system call failed on file libiconv.a.
add shr4_64.o shared members from /usr/lib/libiconv.a to  /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a
ar: Cannot open or remove a file containing a running program.
ar: 0707-113 The fopen system call failed on file libiconv.a.

I've tried to clean the kernel and library memory before installation.

#  slibclean

I do see that there processes using this file as shared library.

What would be the proper way to install this package successfully.

THis is an LPAR.

hna2tegh:/home/oracle/ghostscript# fuser -uVx /usr/lib/libiconv.a
/usr/lib/libiconv.a:
vfs             1966200s(root)
vfs             2359324s(d_mock)
vfs             3276948s(root)
vfs             3342438s(root)
vfs             3997878s(d_mock)
vfs             4063344s(root)
vfs             4390918s(d_mock)

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Paste the output of these commands.

# cksum libiconv-1.14-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

# ls -l libiconv-1.14-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

#rpm -qp --scripts libiconv-1.14-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

Originally posted by: Canuck719

hna2tegh:/home/oracle/ghostscript# cksum libiconv-1.14-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
3046615683 1585171 libiconv-1.14-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
hna2tegh:/home/oracle/ghostscript# ls -ltr libiconv-1.14-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system      1585171 Apr 06 12:01 libiconv-1.14-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
hna2tegh:/home/oracle/ghostscript# rpm -qp --scripts libiconv-1.14-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
# we need to include all shared members of the system wide /usr/lib/libiconv.a
# at rpm installation time to avoid core dump of system binaries

export AR="/usr/bin/ar -X32_64"

/usr/bin/mkdir -p /tmp/libiconv.tmp
cd  /tmp/libiconv.tmp
LIST=`${AR} -t /usr/lib/libiconv.a`
${AR} -x /usr/lib/libiconv.a
/usr/bin/strip -X32_64 -e *
/usr/bin/cp -f /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a .
for i in ${LIST}
do
   if [ "$i" != "libiconv.so.2" ]; then
     echo "add $i shared members from /usr/lib/libiconv.a to  /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a"
    ${AR} -r libiconv.a ${i}
   fi
done
/usr/bin/cp -f libiconv.a /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a
cd -
/usr/bin/rm -rf /tmp/libiconv.tmp
hna2tegh:/home/oracle/ghostscript#

Originally posted by: AyappanP

The script copies (with --force option ) /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a in a temporary directory and adds the shared objects already extracted from AIX base /usr/lib/libiconv.a

Not sure why "ar" command throws the fopen error since it is executed on the temporary libiconv.a file (which will be not loaded by any process ).

Unable to re-create this issue in our side. 

Just check the contents of /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a 

# /usr/bin/ar -X32_64 -tv /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a
rwxr-xr-x   205/1     1162902 Jun 11 04:47 2019 libiconv.so.2
rwxr-xr-x   205/1     1200110 Jun 11 04:46 2019 libiconv.so.2
rwxr-x---     0/0     117276 Dec 04 07:36 2019 shr4.o
rwxr-x---     0/0     117526 Dec 04 07:36 2019 shr.o
rwxr-x---     0/0     159410 Dec 04 07:36 2019 shr4_64.o

If shr.o, shr4_64.o are missing, then you have to manually extract them from AIX base libiconv and put it here. 
 

Originally posted by: Canuck719

Thank you AyappanP, your idea of manually copying worked. Here is what I've done.

# /usr/bin/mkdir -p /tmp/libiconv.tmp
# cd /tmp/libiconv.tmp

/usr/bin/ar -X32_64   -t /usr/lib/libiconv.a

# /usr/bin/ar -X32_64   -tv /usr/lib/libiconv.a
r--r--r--     2/2     237919 Jan 02 20:43 2019 shr4.o
r--r--r--     2/2     238041 Jan 02 20:43 2019 shr.o
r--r--r--     2/2     310767 Jan 02 20:43 2019 shr4_64.o

#  /usr/bin/ar -X32_64 -tv /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a
rwxr-xr-x   205/1     1162902 Jun 11 04:47 2019 libiconv.so.2
rwxr-xr-x   205/1     1200110 Jun 11 04:46 2019 libiconv.so.2
r--r--r--     0/0     237919 Apr 14 14:33 2020 shr4.o

# /usr/bin/ar -X32_64 -x /usr/lib/libiconv.a # To get the files extracted into temp dir
# chmod 750 shr.o shr4_64.o shr4.o
# ls -ltr
total 1552
-rwxr-x---    1 root     d_mock       237919 Apr 16 09:20 shr4.o
-rwxr-x---    1 root     d_mock       238041 Apr 16 09:20 shr.o
-rwxr-x---    1 root     d_mock       310767 Apr 16 09:20 shr4_64.o

#Missing files are shr.o, shr4_64.o in /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a

# I'm adding all 3 files with proper permissions

# Adding files to the archive manually
/usr/bin/ar -X32_64 -r /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a  shr4.o
/usr/bin/ar -X32_64 -r /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a shr.o
/usr/bin/ar -X32_64 -r /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a shr4_64.o

Originally posted by: AyappanP

sounds good. Thanks