GWIA Installation crashes in between

  • 7001006
  • 22-Jul-2008
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell GroupWise 7

Situation

When trying to upgrade gwia to version 7 from groupwise 6.5, the installation crashes after providing the path to the sys:\system for the nlms and the load script file

Resolution

Go to the server console
Edit sys:\etc\hosts file , confirm that it has an entry for the ip address of the server space servername.domain_name
Remove any other entries from that line
Save the file and exist
Reinitialise the system

Additional Information

Also make sure sys:\etc\hosts file has the entry for the server ip address