A question about updating the kernel on HP-UX platform

[Former Member]

Hi,

After updating the kernel from 144 to 236 on the ECC6.0, I found that we got different result as using dispwork on UNIX and sm51 on SAP. the command dispwork showed the patch number is 236 while the sm51 showed Kernel Patch Number is 144. I can not catch the reason why I got such result.

It is pretty odd.

Thanks and Best Regards

Rongjie

[Former Member]

How many app server entries you see in SM51? If you have more than one, chances are one or more of your app servers have a local exe dir that still has old kernel. Do you use login group to login to the system? If so, check if your login group takes you to the app server with old kernel.

Regards,

Shan

Edited by: r.shanmu on May 27, 2010 5:41 PM

[former_member204746]

you have at least 2 disp+work file

to find them:

find / -name disp+work -exec ls -l {} \;

provide results of this command.

[markus_doehr2]

> After updating the kernel from 144 to 236 on the ECC6.0, I found that we got different result as using dispwork on UNIX and sm51 on SAP. the command dispwork showed the patch number is 236 while the sm51 showed Kernel Patch Number is 144. I can not catch the reason why I got such result.

To which directory did you unpack the kernel?

Markus

[Former Member]

I unpacked the kernel in /sapmnt/<SID>/exe.

[sunny_pahuja2]

Hi,

Is your kernel getting replicated at /usr/sap/<sid>/SYS/exe ? Means you should have same kernel version at both places (/usr/sap/<sid>/exe) and /sapmnt/<sid>/exe.

Check below link as well:

Thanks

Sunny

[Former Member]

We also checked the directory /usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/run and /sapmnt/<SID>/exe. It got exactly same thing.

[markus_doehr2]

> We also checked the directory /usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/exe/run and /sapmnt/<SID>/exe. It got exactly same thing.

and your system was restarted?

Markus

[Former Member]

Yes, I restarted the system for several times.