ITEM: K0171L

Upgraded to 3.2.5 and I removed /usr/lpp/info/En_US by accident.

Question:

I have a RISC/6000 model 340 running AIX version 3.2.5.  I just
recently upgraded, and I was supposed to enter 
  "rm -r/usr/lpp/info/En_US/*"   and on accident I did a 
  "rm -r/usr/lpp/info/En_US". 

 Now when I access SMIT or INFO, I get a message:

                1800-040;  can't open soft copy help
                      information database.
                      help not available for SMIT session
                      for current setting of

Receive the following error message when starting Tech-Lib:
   [mcmOpenMsgCat]: error opening message catalog at infomsg.cat

Response:

The mcmOpenMsgCat error probably has to do with the LANG variable.  If you
are using the default ksh, do this:

export LANG=En_US

and try starting info again.

The missing softcopy help information does result from missing a few 
required files in /usr/lpp/info/En_US.  They are

/usr/lpp/info/En_US/sys.sys
/usr/lpp/info/En_US/help/help.key
/usr/lpp/info/En_US/help/help.rom
/usr/lpp/info/En_US/aixmin/aixmin.key
/usr/lpp/info/En_US/aixmin/aixmin.rom

Since you are using Techlib, we can copy the sys.sys file from CD to 
directory.  The others, lets try linking to them on CD.  Do the following:

cd /usr/lpp/info/En_US
cp /usr/lpp/info/data/techlib/sys.sys ./sys.sys
mkdir help
mkdir aixmin
ln -s /usr/lpp/info/data/techlib/aix325/help/help.key ./help/help.key
ln -s /usr/lpp/info/data/techlib/aix325/help/help.rom ./help/help.rom
ln -s /usr/lpp/info/data/techlib/aix325/aix/aix.key ./aixmin/aixmin.key
ln -s /usr/lpp/info/data/techlib/aix325/aix/aix.rom ./aixmin/aixmin.rom

Now try smit and see if the missing softcopy help message goes away.

(NOTE: if you are AIX 3.2.4 or earlier, use aix324 instead of aix325 in the
commands above)

The above procedures corrected the problem.



Support Line: Upgraded to 3.2.5 and I removed /usr/lpp/info/En_US by accident. ITEM: K0171L

Dated: July 1994 Category: N/A

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