• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 21

Problem Symptoms:
I am upgrading from Aleph 18 to Aleph 21.

When I try to call up "Install customer data" on Aleph 21 target machine I get an error even I see the a18_1.tar.gz in ./data-directory. I also checked the ./conf/par_file.

This is the error:

0. Exit
-- 1. Check environment
-- 2. Install customer data
-- 3. Run upgrade express
4. View logfiles

5. View/Update upgrade parameters
6. Backup/Restore Oracle Tables to be Upgraded
7. Store/Restore configuration files
8. Perform Post Upgrade Express Actions
9. Transfer data / configuration files between servers


Please select [0]: 2
.tar.gzing ./data/a18_1
run create and/or transfer customer data
If you transferred the u-tree from another v.a21_1 server, use option 9 to upload it

Cause:
The upgrade util configuration file contained a windows carriage return. Therefore this file can not be handled properly on UNIX server.

Resolution:
1. Remove carriage return from file /upgrade_express_1901_2001/conf/par_file

Here are the steps to correct the problem:

aleph@aleph(a21_1):~/upgrade_express_1901_2001>pwd
/exlibris/aleph/upgrade_express_1901_2001
aleph@aleph(a21_1):~/upgrade_express_1901_2001>od -c conf/par_file
0000000 S _ A L E P H _ A P P _ V E R S
0000020 I O N = a 1 8 _ 1 \r \n
0000033
aleph@aleph(a21_1):~/upgrade_express_1901_2001>dos2unix conf/par_file
dos2unix: converting file conf/par_file to UNIX format ...
aleph@aleph(a21_1):~/upgrade_express_1901_2001>od -c conf/par_file
0000000 S _ A L E P H _ A P P _ V E R S
0000020 I O N = a 1 8 _ 1 \n
0000032

2. Activate the upgrade_util util and execute step "2. Install customer data"

Category: Upgrade

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013