IT36031: RHEL 8 INSTALLGSKIT DOES NOT INSTALL CORRECTLY IF EXISTING PREVIOUS VERSION

APAR status

• Closed as user error.

Error description

• On RHEL8 with an existing installation with GSKit 8.0.50.89,
  installgskit doesn't install correctly, if customer ignores this
  installation error
  you'll see at startup following message:
  
  initialization of libisi.so.2 failed
  expected GSKit version: 8.0.55.12, but found 8.0.50.89
  
  And
  
  the symlink for $INFORMIXDIR/lib/libisi.so.2 is not created.
  
  ln -s $INFORMIXDIR/lib/libisi_gsk.so.2.0
  $INFORMIXDIR/lib/libisi.so.2  (this is needed)
  
  While trying to installgskit from the $INFORMIXDIR/gskit
  distributed  with products you'll see:
  
  From : $INFORMIXDIR/tmp/gskit.log
  
  warning: gskcrypt64-8.0.55.12.linux.x86_64.rpm: Header V3
  RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID fbbfca9c: NOKEY
  warning: package gskcrypt64-8.0-50.89.x86_64 was already added,
  replacing with gskcrypt64-8.0-55.12.x86_64
  warning: package gskcrypt64-8.0-55.12.x86_64 was already added,
  replacing with gskcrypt64-8.0-55.17.x86_64
  Verifying packages...
  Preparing packages...
       package gskcrypt64-8.0-55.17.x86_64 does not verify: no
  digest
  Either GSKit package is already installed or an error occurred
  during RPM package installation.
  
  warning: gskssl64-8.0.55.12.linux.x86_64.rpm: Header V3
  RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID fbbfca9c: NOKEY
  warning: package gskssl64-8.0-50.89.x86_64 was already added,
  replacing with gskssl64-8.0-55.12.x86_64
  warning: package gskssl64-8.0-55.12.x86_64 was already added,
  replacing with gskssl64-8.0-55.17.x86_64
  Verifying packages...
  Preparing packages...
       package gskssl64-8.0-55.17.x86_64 does not verify: no
  digest
  Either GSKit package is already installed or an error occurred
  during RPM package installation.
  
  So, in order to overcome this situation it needs to be run as:
  
  cd /opt/IBM/informix14/gskit
  tar xvf gskssl64-8.0.55.17.linux.x86_64.tar
  tar xvf gskcrypt64-8.0.55.17.linux.x86_64.tar
  rpm -ivh --nodigest --noverify --nosignature
  gskcrypt64-8.0.55.17.linux.x86_64.rpm
  rpm -Uvh --nodigest --noverify --nosignature
  gskcrypt64-8.0.55.17.linux.x86_64.rpm
  rpm -Uvh --nofiledigest --nodigest --noverify --nosignature
  gskcrypt64-8.0.55.17.linux.x86_64.rpm
  rpm -Uvh --nofiledigest --nodigest --noverify --nosignature
  gskssl64-8.0.55.17.linux.x86_64.rpm
  
  A side note is that while the GSKit is showing the errors,
  edition will always show DE no matter if xx_edition.jar is
  installed.
  
  After the GSKit issue is resolved it'll show the correct edition
  

Local fix

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

•  It appears that there is no inherent problem with this version
  of the OS.
  

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Fix information

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