Originally posted by: esv

Folks,

last night I went to IBM's support site to download AIX 5.3 TL 7 SP3, since my system was on AIX 5.3 TL6 SP3, I indicated to include the base TL7 in the file list, then selected bulk ftp as the transfer method, as the list of fixes is quite significant, I left the process running all night and this morning I attempted the upgrade process.

I did not have any efixes or broken filesets, lppchk -vm3 came out clean, still the system failed to upgrade to TL7SP3 complaining of prerequisite failures:


MISSING REQUISITES: The following filesets are required by one or more
of the selected filesets listed above. They are not currently installed
and could not be found on the installation media.

bos.rte 6.0.0.0 # Base Level Fileset
devices.vdevice.IBM.v-scsi-host.rte 5.3.7.0 # Base Level Fileset
xlC.aix61.rte 9.0.0.0 # Base Level Fileset


I don't want to go to 6.1 (yet) and why in the world devices.vdevice.IBM.v-scsi-host.rte 5.3.7.0 is not included, as you might have guessed the file list is just a bunch of UXXXXX.bff filesets , I've downloaded the fixes from two totally unrelated places and both sets fail with the same message.
I would happily include the file list but it is too long for a posting in this forum.

any comments are welcomed.

Thanks,
esv.

Originally posted by: KarlM

devices.vdevice.IBM.v-scsi-host.rte is the virtual SCSI server adapter, I'd only expect this to be required on a VIO server!
BTW there are 813 .bff files in my download of 5300-07-03-0811

Message was edited by: KarlM

Originally posted by: esv

I am not arguing whether it is/should/will be required or used or had to be installed (btw, I am upgrading a VIO Client), the issue at hand is why that one and a 2nd fileset were not present in the download list when I requested to download TL7SP3 including the TL7 base.

it happens all the time, if not these two any other fileset, specially the CSM and RCST filesets.

I downloaded the missing filesets manually, I am all set now but it stinks that I am running into problems all the time for missing filesets since I request to download ALL filesets for a specific level including the pre-requisites.

best regards,
esv.

Originally posted by: KarlM

Enrique, I still don't see why your update is trying to install the v-scsi-host, or the others. I don't want to teach you to suck eggs but are you sure you are not running an 'install and update from ALL available software' rather than an 'update all'?
The CSM updates are packaged separate from the OS I thought.

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Enrique,

I have the same problem. I am upgrading a 8-way p570 from 5.3 TL6 SP1 to 5.3 TL 7 SP3 and I receive the messages of the missing prereqs and it gives me the impression I need to go to AIX 6. I upgraded 5 other systems just fine (none of them a p570.)

I also have the AIX 5.3 TL7 SP3 with base (a complete ftp download and I ordered it on CD too - same problem with both sets.) I also have just been doing the simtty update_all option.

I too do not want to go to AIX 6 yet. (I have 2 systems that can't even run it anyway.)

An IBM business partner associate told me he has heard of this problem and thinks a work around is available. I'll be seeing him tomorrow. Hopefully he was able to look it up.

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I'm in a similar boat. I must install a 5.3 system at Tech Level 6 to match a customer's os level. I installed the AIX 5.3 from CD's dated Feb 2005, then tried to install TL6. I get 7 missing requisites:

bos.adt.libmio 5.3.0.0 # Base Level Fileset
csm.hpsnm 1.4.1.0 # Base Level Fileset
devices.pci.df1023fd.rte 5.3.0.0 # Base Level Fileset
devices.pciex.14103903.diag 5.3.0.0 # Base Level Fileset
devices.pciex.14103903.rte 5.3.0.0 # Base Level Fileset
rsct.opt.saf.amf 2.4.0.0 # Base Level Fileset
rsct.opt.storagerm 2.4.0.0 # Base Level Fileset

I can't seem to download these from anywhere. Anybody know where I can get these?

Thanks,
Steve

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I ran into the problem on several AIX machines. I was trying to upgrade from 5300-06 to anything newer. Here is how I got around the missing dependency.

• Use smitty suma_easy to download the latest TL and SP (5.3.8.something at this time)
• In a browser, open http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1fileset1151397248

This should be the set of fixes including devices.vdevice.IBM.v-scsi-host.rte
I clicked on the latest fix for 5.3 (U817363 currently)
I selected my current OS level and clicked next.
This gives a very long list of files. I got the ftp links for 2 of them.
devices.vdevice.IBM.v-scsi-host.rte.5.3.8.2
devices.vtdev.scsi.rte.5.3.8.0

Then I used wget to download those files to the directory where suma downloaded the latest fixes.

In a terminal window,
cd /usr/sys/inst.images/installp/ppc (where suma downloaded the files)
inutoc .
smitty install
do an update all from this directory and remember to read/accept licenses, etc.

I am sure this process could be modified to be easier, but this is what I did.