Installing COBOL 5.0 development license fails

Problem Symptoms:

When installing the COBOL license on a new server (following instructions of Knowledge Base article 'How to reinstall Cobol license' (KB 16384-58849) fails with the following error:

Error: Failed to install the COBOL (server express 5.0) development license
When in aleph user, doing dlib abc50 always prints this message:

No Application Server License available at COBDIR location:
/exlibris/product/cobol5

Cause:
old files from COBOL 5.0 are present on the server

Resolution:

Clean up those files before executing the scripts cob_dev_lic and cob_run_lic mentioned in KB Item How to reinstall COBOL license

Carry out the following steps as UNIX user root:

1. Check if the License Manager is running:

# pgrep -lf mflm_manager

If the License Manager is running the command above will return a process ID.

2. If the License Manager is running then stop it with the following command:

# /opt/microfocus/mflmf/lmfgetpv k

If this command does not stop the License Manager then kill its operating system process with the UNIX command "kill".

3. Check if a Named Pipe with the name LMF-common exists in the directory /tmp or /var/tmp:

# ls -l /tmp/LMF-common
prwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 29 08:48 /tmp/LMF-common

If the Named Pipe exists, remove it:

# rm /tmp/LMF-common


4. Delete the following files and directories related to the development license:

# ls -ld /var/*mf*
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 15 2011 /var/aslmfsem
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 2011 /var/mfaslmf


# rm /var/aslmfsem
# rm -rf /var/mfaslmf

5. Remove any existing shared memory segments that were allocated by the License Manager:

# ipcs -m | grep root | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -t -i{} ipcrm -m {}


6. Remove the startup script of the License Manager:

# rm /etc/mflmrcscript


7. Remove the root directory of the License Manager:

# rm -rf /opt/microfocus

8. Continue with instructions of 'How to reinstall Cobol license' (KB 16384-58849) to install the license.

Additional Information

See also Article "How to reinstall the licenses of the COBOL environment for Aleph" :

• Article last edited: 12/01/2017