
Lotus Notes Silent Install Fix Pack Software
IBM announced moments ago that they are pulling IBM Notes Standard 9.0.1 Fix Pack 5 from download due to the following A critical problem has been discovered with upgrading to Notes Standard 9.0.1 Fix Pack 5 from an earlier 9.0.1 Fix Pack or Hotfix. The install ends with the message 'The wizard was interrupted before IBM Notes 9.0.1 FP5 could.
Daniel Nashed 24 April 2018 09:38:04 Since 20.4.2018 Notes Client Feature Pack Installations are failing. I got the first report on Friday and another customer pinged me on Monday. Tamil ayyappan mp3 songs. And we are discussing among partners about this issue.
One partner reported that updates from FP9 to FP10 still work for him. But all other updates are failing.
IBM state that this isn't an issue with FP7 or FP8. But I have not verified that. The root cause is that signatures for some plug-ins cannot be verified any more because the certificate validation expired. It's not just one plug-in that fails and you might have a different plug-in that is reported to cause the error. Here is the error message that you see n the Eclipse logs: java.security.cert.CertificateExpiredException: NotAfter: Fri Apr 20 01:59:59 CEST 2018 If you turn back the time to an earlier date it's still works. But this isn't a work-around I would suggest.
There is another work-around to temporary allow expired certificates of signatures during install and enable it afterwards. You would need to add the following setting to plugin_customization.ini and revert the setting back after installation. 'com.ibm.rcp.security.update/EXPIRED_SIGNATURE_POLICY=ALLOW' But again this is also just a work-around. IBM is aware of the issue and posted a technote -> They are working on a solution. The technote says that they don't know exactly what is causing the issue. We have to wait for their update.
And I would recommend to wait before updating your clients until a fix is available instead using the work-arounds. Update April 26, 2018: IBM/HCL posted an update today in the TN.
They found the issue, fixed it and hopefully if QE testing is successful we will have a fix soon. @Marc, see they are posting an update for 9.0.1 FP9, FP10, Current MAC 64bit Client and also 8.5.3 FP6! So the update for FP9 will be first and the other versions follow soon! Here are the details from the update: We have found a solution for the certificate issue for all products and versions. Please see the eGA for each product and version in the table below. Please note this is subject to change depending on the outcome of our QE Testing.
Product Version Projected eGA Notes Client 853FP6IF16 Tuesday May 1, 2018 Notes Client 901FP9IF2 Friday April 27, 2018 Notes Client 901FP10IF3 Beginning of May 2018 MAC 64-bit IF15 Tuesday May 1, 2018 Sametime Standalone 9.0.1 FP1 Beginning of May 2018 -- Daniel • [22]. Ms money sunset home and business. 3 Mathias 13:48:40 Notes Client FP Installs fail starting 20.4.2018 Hi Daniel, we also faced this problem with FP9 SHF55 and FP SHF68. In addition we have problem whith the calendar.
All views excepting 'weekly planner' were greyed out after starting the client using the workaround with the plugin_customization.ini. IBM have opened SPR # PAULAY5CTW and APAR LO93931 for this. Only switching the date in the os before installing the notesclient help us to solve both issues.
Hoping for a quick fix for this problems. Regards Mathias.
5 Marc Thomas 23:05:58 Notes Client FP Installs fail starting 20.4.2018 I tried several workarounds regarding that issue. All of them are not recommended to use them in a regular deployment. But another question is how IBM will try to fix this. From my point for view repackaging is inevitable. There are still enough reasons for customers not to deploy FP10. At least my own advise is not to use FP10 in many cases. My fear is that IBM will only provide something like FP10 IF3 but a FP9 IF 2 is unlikely.
Due to that situation, probably every customer has to deploy FP10 IF.X if they want to use any modern FIX/Feature Level. This will leads to new interesting situations on cutomer site So lets see how IBM will deal with this situation. 10 Lars Berntrop-Bos 9:12:22 Notes Client FP Installs fail starting 20.4.2018 Aha spoted that the technote recommend removing the lines form the file *used by the fipack installer only*. I fail to see what impact that would have on subsequent running of the client.