Re: (PM) Trouble upgrading on busy PM3

Craig Baird (bairdc@xpressweb.com)
Fri, 05 Jun 1998 11:35:39 -0600

When ComOS 3.8.2 came out, I tried upgrading a busy box. I was using
pm_install on Linux. It failed three times with a "Write error", then
finally succeeded on the fourth attempt. It was a newer box--only 3
months old at the time, so I don't think that age has anything to do
with it, as another post suggested. Any upgrades/downgrades since then
have been done late at night when there are only a few people on the
box. They've all succeeded. You can take your chances, but I learned
my lesson, and will now always do my upgrades when usage/traffic is at a
minimum.

Craig
Xpressweb Internet Services
bairdc@xpressweb.com
http://www.xpressweb.com

>
> Jake Messinger wrote:
>
> > :I just upgraded 5 PM3's to 3.8.2c2 with pmconsole, all had users online
> > :and all 5 upgrades finished without a single problem. In fact, I did not
> > :have a single failed upgrade since we own PM3's.
> >
> > I have done several experiments and have noted that on a busy network, when
> > the Pm 3 is busy, the upgrade will fail quite often.
>
> The Busy Network is the key I would think and not the actually number of
> users. Remember TFTP and PMConsole/PMVision is UDP based and not TCP Based.
>
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