QC Procedure: SL-53+VLTSW-2010+DFS-6 Upgrade of DFO Blades

If you haven't already done step 1 above it is too late. You must now do steps 2 and 3 above if you have not yet already done so. Once you have done so you can then proceed with:

1. ssh to your upgraded dfoNN
2. TMP_DIR:
   For many of us the DFOS enviroment variable TMP_DIR is set to something like /tmp/<inst> and since /tmp was not migrated across, the TMP_DIR will not in general exist. So do:

   [ ! -d "${TMP_DIR}" ] && mkdir -pv ${TMP_DIR}
   

3. /hsrmnt:
   Replace any and all references to /hrsmnt/home with simply /home in .qcrc, .dfosrc, .pecs/* and anywhere else you may have made a reference to it... If you are feeling brave and trust JP implicitly you could do:

   sed -i 's|/hsrmnt/home|/home|g' 
   

   for each <file> you know or think it might be in, or for the bold:

   sed -i 's|/hsrmnt/home|/home|g' .qcrc .dfosrc .pecs/*
   

4. LD_LIBRARY_PATH Check if LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes /vlt/FEB2007/NOCCS/lib. If so find in .qcrc, .dfosrc, .pecs/* where this is set and remove it.

   grep LD_LIBRARY_PATH.\*/vlt/FEB2007/NOCCS/lib .qcrc .dfosrc .pecs/*
   

5. logout and then ssh to your upgraded dfoNN again
6. Firefox: Start Firefox, do NOT click any of the DFOS action buttons. Do the following to obtain the "expected" behaviours...
   1. To prevent firefox coming to the front when remote loading a file:

      - In the URL tar type "about:config"
      - Click Ok
      - type "Diverted" in the filter field
      - Double click on the "browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground" config key to set it to "true"
      

   2. To prevent firefox opening remote loaded pages in a new tab (or window)

      - In the URL tar type "about:config"
      - Click Ok
      - type "open_external" in the filter field
      - Double click on the "browser.link.open_external" config key and set it to 1
      

   3. To prevent firefox opening clicked links in a new tab (or window)

      - In the URL tar type "about:config"
      - Click Ok
      - type "open_newwindow" in the filter field
      - Double click on the "browser.link.open_newwindow" config key and set it to 1
      

7. DFOS action buttons:
   Before clicking on any DFOS action button, recreate the web page it is on with the appropriate tool BEFORE doing so...
8. dfoMonitor:
   As a first check of basic health, run dfoMonitor once. Now clicking on the DFOS action buttons should be OK.
9. SciSoft: conflicts with the VLTSW provided MIDAS and java. The best advise I think is don't use SciSoft, i.e. comment out (or remove completely from .qcrc, .dfosrc and .pecs/* any line that includes:

   . /scisoft/bin/Setup.bash
   

   or

   source /scisoft/bin/Setup.bash
   

   If you really do need SciSoft, then use (something like) the following, In .qcrc:

   saveMIDASHOME="${MIDASHOME}"
   saveMIDVERS="${MIDVERS}"
   ## SciSoft...
   if [ -f /scisoft/bin/Setup.bash ]; then
      . /scisoft/bin/Setup.bash > /dev/null 2>&1
   fi
   export MIDASHOME="${saveMIDASHOME}"
   export MIDVERS="${saveMIDVERS}"
   

   And then at the very END of .qcrc

   for P in $(echo $PATH | tr ":" "\n" | grep scisoft) ; do
     export PATH=${PATH/:${P}}:${P}
   done
   

10. Python: pyqc was originally written to work with the Python provided by SciSoft. Since version 1.2.1 (or maybe earlier) it work with the QC customised Python version in /qcdp. If you have already migrated to use /qcdp there is nothing to do. If not, now is the time to do so.
11. crontab:
    

    crontab ${HOME}/crontab.SL-43+VLTSW-2007+DFS-5
    

12. Resume normal operations