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| cgache |
 Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 10:23 pm Post subject: rpm -qa command returns nothing but dspmqver shows fixpack 4 |
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Hi guys,
Having some trouble applying maintenance to a v7.0.1.4 queue manager. My main goal is to upgrade from 7.0.1.4 to 8.0 but i want to bring it up a maintenance level first to be able to do one queue manager at a time. I'm trying to apply fixpack 9. The issue I'm having is when i do dspmqver I get 7.0.1.4 but when I do rpm -qa | grep MQSeries I get nothing returned. I tried to apply the maintenance but when I issued the rpm -ivh ... command I got "...there is a dependency on 7.0.0..." which is understandable since the rpm -qa command returns nothing but the confusing part is dspmqver returns 7.0.1.4 
Anybody see this before? My main guess is the installation is fudged but I'm hoping to be wrong as that's the last thing I need....
Any help is welcome and appreciated!! TIA |
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| smdavies99 |
| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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If you are using a RedHat distro then I'd try to stop using rpm directly.
Use YUM (or the replacement for yum if you are using fedora 25 etc)
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should do the trick.
You will find things a lot simpler all round if you use YUM.
I can't remember the last time I had to revert to rom directly on my main systems.
Yum is a more friendly frontend to rpm!
Also, whenever I've removed MQ etc I reboot the server just to ensure that there are no dead handles/shared memory segments/semaphores lying around from the old installation.
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| cgache |
| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your response smdavies99
I'm not sure the issue here is the rpm command though, since it's rightfully returning nothing (justified by the fact I can't install fixpack 9 since it can't find the base package even when I do try to install the rpm package anyway) and also the production server is identical and returns the expected results 
The confusing part is it shows MQ installation has fix pack 4, and also I don't wish to remove the MQ installation, I'd like to migrate one by one by having multi versions on the server. |
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:45 am Post subject: |
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MQ v8 supports co-existing installs. MQ v7 has to be the primary installation in a coexisting install.
you could try |rpm -qa|grep -i mq"
But first you should maybe try "rpm -qa | head -5" and see if anything comes up.
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| Philip Morten |
| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:40 am Post subject: |
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What distribution are you on?
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| cgache |
| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
MQ v8 supports co-existing installs. MQ v7 has to be the primary installation in a coexisting install.
you could try |rpm -qa|grep -i mq"
But first you should maybe try "rpm -qa | head -5" and see if anything comes up. |
rpm -qa | head -5
python-kitchen-1.1.1-1.el6.noarch
hicolor-icon-theme-0.11-1.1.el6.noarch
anaconda-13.21.254-1.el6.x86_64
foomatic-db-filesystem-4.0-7.20091126.el6.noarch
pytz-2010h-2.el6.noarch
rpm -qa | grep -i mq
python-txzmq-0.6.2-4.el6.noarch
python-zmq-14.3.1-1.el6.x86_64
zeromq3-3.2.5-1.el6.x86_64 |
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| cgache |
| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Philip Morten wrote: |
| What distribution are you on? |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago) |
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Do you know what media you originally installed from? Was it a 7.0.0.0 server install? Or a later version?
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:50 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like maybe MQ was never properly installed on this server. Maybe someone copied over a bunch of directories and files from another server to this one.
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| cgache |
| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
| Do you know what media you originally installed from? Was it a 7.0.0.0 server install? Or a later version? |
No idea, I inherited this set up a few months ago with the task to upgrade now  |
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| cgache |
| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| PeterPotkay wrote: |
| Sounds like maybe MQ was never properly installed on this server. Maybe someone copied over a bunch of directories and files from another server to this one. |
After a lot of investigation and googling that was my initial conclusion too, and obviously I can't ask our friends at IBM for assistance since we are dealing with Stone Age MQ version 
I think I'm gonna have to bite the bullet on this one and remove everything and do a fresh install..
Thanks everyone for all your help with this! |
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