Recovering and cleaning up after a migration failure

The OES2 or SLES migration failed or moving from OES2-SP2 to OES2-SP3 goes wrong and the upgrade takes longer than expected due to dependency issues and old packages, it is best to start over, you can do so by doing the following:

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Instead of trying to fix ZMD and the Repositories and dependency issues, you may perform an OFFLINE update via

TID 7008176

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Or:

1.  Remove the move-to-oes2-sp3 patch (rug rm -t patch

move-to-oes2-sp3)

2.  If it complains about any patches coming from the

OES2-SP2-Updates,

make sure that you are no longer subscribed to that channel in 'rug

ca'. 

AND, make sure you don't have it as an installation source in Yast.

3.  Once that was done, remove the migration product marker, this can be done via:

(x86_64) /usr/lib64/zmd/query-pool products @system

(x86) /usr/lib/zmd/query-pool products @system

With the name resulting from the comamnd above, you may then remove the Migration product via

rug remove -t product MigrationProductName

If this is not succesful within /var/lib/zybb/db/products.  Please remove the

file that starts with 321. You can ensure it is the correct file by looking at the contents.

4.  Stop rug (rczmd stop), delete the rug database (rm

/var/lib/zmd/zmd.db), and rczmd start

5.  Once rug was finished refreshing it's new database file, run the

move-to-oes2-sp3 patch.

After it finishes make sure that you are unsubscribed from the OES2-SP2

channels and subscribed to the

OES2-SP3 channels.  Please verify with: rug ca and also check Yast2 -->

Software Management --> Installation Source

6.  After that run: rug up -t patch or Yast --> Software Management -->

Online Update to install patches.

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If the update from OES2-SP2 to OES2-SP3 seemed to update okay, but still

experience issues with old repositories and old patches, perform the

following:

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1. Make sure that no older repositories are subscribed to from rug.

rug ca

2. If you have older OES2-SP2-Updates, OES2-SP2-Pool or

OES2-SP2-Online, you want to remove them from rug by doing the

following:

rug unsub OES2-SP2-Updates

3. Next, go into Yast2 --> Software Management --> Installation Source

and check and remove any old repositories that are showing up.

4. Try running Yast2 --> Software Management --> Online Update and see

if the correct patches are listed now.

5. If they are not, verify that all the catalogs are subscribed to: The

catalogs you should have for OES2 are OES2-SP3-Updates and OES2-SP3-Pool

and for SLES10 are SLES10-SP3-Updates and SLES10-SP3-Pool.

6. If these are not listed in Yast2 --> Software Management -->

Installation Source, you can edit an existing repository and copy it's

information and add a new one.