3.2.4->5.06
joe mc cool
A customer of mine has an old 386 machine running SCO Unix 3.2.4. He
wants to change to a Pentium machine and 5.06. I have bought for him
a 3.2.4 to 5.06 upgrade.
I've installed the 5.06 on the new hardware, but when it boots I get
the message:
"No user licences found on this machine. Please boot to single user
and correct this situation".
The machine will not boot multi-user. Licence manager reports that
the user licence has "expired".
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Dan
Is the CMOS battery on the PC still working?
What is the date in CMOS?
I think there's a problem if the CMOS date precedes the SCO
install date.
Best of luck,
Dan
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Tom Parsons
| Fellows:
|
| A customer of mine has an old 386 machine running SCO Unix 3.2.4. He
| wants to change to a Pentium machine and 5.06. I have bought for him
| a 3.2.4 to 5.06 upgrade.
|
| I've installed the 5.06 on the new hardware, but when it boots I get
| the message:
|
| "No user licences found on this machine. Please boot to single user
| and correct this situation".
|
| The machine will not boot multi-user. Licence manager reports that
| the user licence has "expired".
The date in the bios is later than the date of installation.
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Bill Campbell
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>The date in the bios is later than the date of installation.
You can work around this by editing the /etc/inittab file, putting the
asktimerc command above the one that starts the license manager. This
will require manually setting the time when rebooting.
I ran an old Pentium 90 here with that problem for almost six months,
before replacing it with a Caldera OpenLinux system, and during that
time I had a cron job that wrote out the current time and date to an
executable file in /etc hourly, then added a line to /etc/inittab to
execute that file before starting the license manager. This allowed
unattended reboots.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion
>A customer of mine has an old 386 machine running SCO Unix 3.2.4. He
>wants to change to a Pentium machine and 5.06. I have bought for him
>a 3.2.4 to 5.06 upgrade.
>I've installed the 5.06 on the new hardware, but when it boots I get
>the message:
>"No user licences found on this machine. Please boot to single user
>and correct this situation".
>The machine will not boot multi-user. Licence manager reports that
>the user licence has "expired".
Did your user set the date behind that of the install date?
Or was the machine date accidentally ahead of time when the OS was
installed and now the machine is in normal time?
Having the system time set before the install date will give
those errors.
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joe mc cool
Thanks a lot everybody. Problem solved. This matter is addressed in
a TA, but I was too unimaginative to look !