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Splunk Universal Forwarder On AIX Fails To Start After Upgrade To 8.0.2

jerjer951109
Loves-to-Learn

Dear all,

I upgraded universal forwarder from 7.2.0 to 8.0.2 on AIX.

When i start it, i have encountered the below problem:

AIX_upgrade_failed.PNG

 

I have tried to run slibclean and re run upgrade again. but it still failed.

 

 also, i have try to run 'splunk validate files' .

AIX_upgrade_failed2.PNG

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Do you have the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications installed?  See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/8.0.6/Forwarder/Installanixuniversalforwarder#Instal...

I believe the slibclean utility modified some Splunk binaries so now they fail the integrity check.  Re-install Splunk to correct that.

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jerjer951109
Loves-to-Learn

for slibclean , i have try to do it and reinstall splunk but it still failed.

for AIX toolbox, as i can upgrade from 6.3.1 to 7.0.0  and then upgrade 7.0.0 to 7.2.0. but i cannot upgrade to 7.2.0 to 8.0.2.

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