Summary: V5.1 to V5.1B Upgrade.

Thanks to all who responded:

Danielle Georgette.
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn.
John Lanier.

The problem is solved.  Dr.Blinn suggested I delete the directory tree
/usr/opt/java131.  I vrestored back to the original operating system
( V5.1 ), did a rm -r /usr/opt/java131 and then the installupdate
went through without error.

Thanks again and have a nice morning, afternoon or night
depending on where you are.

John Welsh.    | The makers may make
               | And the users may use
               | But the fixers must fix
               | With a very few clues
               | CTS. -  from the KL10 Maintenance Handbook.

-----Original Message-----

>>Subject: V5.1 to V5.1B Upgrade.
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am currently attempting to upgrade from V5.1 to V5.1B and encounter
>> a fatal error after a message unable to overwrite files in /usr/.smdb./
to
>> do
>> with the new version of JAVA.
>>
>> The message text is:
>> ".......
>> ........
>> Loading subset 75 of 102 ...
>>
>> Java 1.3.1-2 Environment
>>    Copying from /mnt/ALPHA/BASE (disk)
>> tclear: cannot install ./usr/opt/java131/jre/lib/alpha/fast (s) on a
>> directory
>>
>> setld:
>> The installed system contains files which cannot be overwritten
>> by the load of the files in the software subset
usr/.smdb./OSFJAVA540.inv.
>>
>> 74 of 102 subsets installed successfully"
>>
>> After this it merges the files and then gets a fatal error and it is
unable
>> to proceed.
>>
>> How do I get past this ? I tried deleting all JAVA related subsets first
>> but got the same end result.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Best Regards,
>> John Welsh.
>> ============
>>