Installing COBOL 5.0 development license fails
- Article Type: General
- Product: Aleph
- Product Version: 20, 21, 22, 23
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