Overview

You need to clean up a previous installation of D7, and when you do reinstall and run the required scripts it seems to find artifacts of the previous install that might be blocking a deployment. For example, it does not prompt for hostname and does not prompt for install type (stand-alone vs. duplex).

Information

To completely remove the D7 software from your server, complete the following steps:

1. Make sure that D7 is stopped. 

   • ebs_ps -x

     • If D7 is running, stop it with the ebs_stop command.

2. Remove the D7 drivers.

   • ebs_modremove


3. Change directory to $EBSHOME.

   • cd $EBSHOME

4. Remove the package and the access directories (x.x.x will depend on the numbering of the package you originally installed).

   • rm -rf access access.x.x.x

Removing the LFS RPMS

After removing the D7 software, proceed with the following steps:

1. Stop the LFS.

   • /etc/init.d/strinet stop

   • /etc/init.d/strsock stop

   • /etc/init.d/strxnet stop

   • /etc/init.d/strxns stop

   • /etc/init.d/strcompat stop

   • /etc/init.d/strace stop

   • /etc/init.d/strerr stop

   • /etc/init.d/streams stop

   • /etc/init.d/specfs stop

2. Remove the RPMs, using the following script.

   • rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep ^str | grep -v ^strace)

3. Confirm that all LFS RPMs are removed.

   • rpm -qa | grep ^str | grep -v ^strace

4. Reboot.
   
   

5. Check if any library is still present.

   • rpm -qa | grep ^str | grep -v ^strace

6. Repeat steps 1 & 2 if any stream RPM exists until step 5 gives empty output.
   
   

7. After reboot (when step 5 is empty), re-install LFS and D7 if needed.

More information regarding the D7 installation procedure for Linux may be found on our NewNet Documentation Center.