Originally posted by: jandersen

I am somewhat puzzled and annoyed by this: When I download and install a fixpack, oslevel -r doesn't seem to show the correct level; eg:

I got tl.6100-04-00-0943, installed it with a number of requisite errors, but the important parts went in. But I still get:

oslevel -r
6100-02

I notice that this service pack is for tl4 - does that mean that it is the wrong one for my system? It doesn't seem so clear from the website.
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Originally posted by: tony.evans

You only get to the right oslevel when all the filesets are updated.

"installed it with a number of requisite errors"

means you didn't install it all.

instfix -ci | grep ":-:"

will tell you what's below level.
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Originally posted by: jandersen

OK - but it would seem logical if requisite errors didn't count, if you see what I mean. Requisite errors only arise because some facility wasn't there; but in that case it isn't relevant, to my mind. Of course, this is all academical, since I am not in charge of AIX :-)
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Originally posted by: tony.evans

If you get requisite errors from an update_all, then you need to resolve them because it probably means you didn't get the full TL downloaded correctly. If you install a TL using install (rather than update_all) then it's a different kettle of ball games anyway.
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Originally posted by: j.gann

> jandersen wrote:

> I notice that this service pack is for tl4 - does that mean that it is the wrong one for my system? It doesn't seem so clear from the website.
your post is confusing.

what was the original level? what did you download and try to install?

an SP contains updates for a specific TL only. you cannot update TL2 with SP4 for TL4.
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Originally posted by: shargus

Ok, I think I know what you are doing, and we've seen this before with TL4.

Do 'oslevel -rl 6100-04' and see what shows up. It should list the filesets that are the problem.

we found that it was a fileset that we could delete. When we did, oslevel reported the correct level. Once you do, 'oslevel -s' should report 6100-04-00-0943.

Requisite errors only arise because some facility wasn't there; but in that case it isn't relevant, to my mind.

I think what happens is: a version of one of the filesets of a product is there, the TL upgrade is supposed to have an update for it, but that update isn't in the TL.

It's probably a packaging bug on IBM's part, but we were able to work around it by removing the filesets that didn't get updated.
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Originally posted by: jandersen

Thank you, everybody! Problem solved. It turned out that I just didn't do it the right way (ie. using update_all).
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