Re: Rational Product Updater Problems - Solution

Eclipse has a bug relating to path names longer than 256 characters.  I
ran across it when RSE failed to open some WebSphere log files when it
succeeded with others (the difference being the length of the node or
server name).  

I recall reading somewhere that one of the Eclipse 3.2 milestones
delivered a fix for this bug, but that obviously doesn't help here. :-(

--Robert

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Subject: [WDSCI-L] Rational Product Updater Problems - Solution

Thought I'd pass this on as it may also explain some of the failures
others
have reported when installing updates.

Claus Weiss remembered that at one time he'd had an apparent problem
with
updates when the policy file was "buried" several levels down in
directory
structure.  Decided to investigate this as when I copied the files to
disk I
had organized them in "fix folders" consequently the path name of the
policy
file was quite long.

I moved all the files so that the path to the policy file was very short
(about 8 characters) and tried again.  The darn thing worked!!

It appears that there is a bug in RPU where the path length can exceed
some
internal maximum and this can cause errors in the update that are not
correctly diagnosed.  So - if you are placing the updates on a network
drive
- don't bury them too deeply!

Still don't know how RPU managed to completely hose my install but
reinstall
fixed that.  Sadly I still haven't got WDSC 6.0.1 running as it appears
that
the WDSC updates I have require RAD 6.0.1.1 and that is 1.4G which is
not a
practical option for me to download on the home DSL.   

Jon Paris
Partner400

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