Error while upgrading NW04s to sp5

Question

I installed NW04s in my machine. I am trying to upgrade it to sp5. I could upgrade the ABAP stack to sp5 without any problem. When i am doing java stack, i could update all other support packages except the one 'CAF05_0-10003464.SCA'. When this package is on progress, the process gets almost completed and gives the status also 'deployed'. But after that it throws the following error and the status also changed to 'not deployed'.
ERROR: Not updated. Deploy Service returned ERROR:
                     java.rmi.RemoteException: Exception in operation update with application sap.com/caf~tc..
                     Reason: com/sap/caf/metamodel/ApplicationInterface; nested exception is:
                          java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/caf/metamodel/ApplicationInterface
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImpl.update(DeployServiceImpl.java:682)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImplp4_Skel.dispatch(DeployServiceImplp4_Skel.java:1278)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.DispatchImpl._runInternal(DispatchImpl.java:320)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.DispatchImpl._run(DispatchImpl.java:198)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.server.P4SessionProcessor.request(P4SessionProcessor.java:129)
                          at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:33)
                          at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.MessageRunner.run(MessageRunner.java:41)
                          at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)
                          at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
                          at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:100)
                          at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:170)
                     Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/caf/metamodel/ApplicationInterface
                          at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
                          at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1655)
                          at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:1778)
                          at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:1788)
                          at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:832)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.deploy.xml.MethodsExtractor.getWithNotSpecifiedMethodInterface(MethodsExtractor.java:156)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.deploy.xml.MethodsExtractor.getAllMethodsInBean(MethodsExtractor.java:103)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.deploy.xml.EJBJarParser.getMethodXml(EJBJarParser.java:1168)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.deploy.xml.EJBJarParser.processContainerTransaction(EJBJarParser.java:1023)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.deploy.xml.EJBJarParser.processAssemblyDescriptor(EJBJarParser.java:924)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.deploy.xml.EJBJarParser.parseXml(EJBJarParser.java:156)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.deploy.xml.EJBJarParser.parseXml(EJBJarParser.java:97)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.deploy.DeployAdmin.parseSingleJar(DeployAdmin.java:298)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.EJBAdmin.buildAppDescriptorBeforeUpdate(EJBAdmin.java:408)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.ejb.EJBAdmin.needUpdate(EJBAdmin.java:341)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.UpdateTransaction.getContainersWhichNeedUpdate(UpdateTransaction.java:537)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.UpdateTransaction.getConcernedContainers(UpdateTransaction.java:493)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.DeployUtilTransaction.commonBegin(DeployUtilTransaction.java:263)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.UpdateTransaction.begin(UpdateTransaction.java:164)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.ApplicationTransaction.makeAllPhasesOnOneServer(ApplicationTransaction.java:292)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.ApplicationTransaction.makeAllPhases(ApplicationTransaction.java:326)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImpl.makeGlobalTransaction(DeployServiceImpl.java:3184)
                          at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImpl.update(DeployServiceImpl.java:670)
                          ... 10 more
                     For detailed information see the log file of the Deploy Service.
06/11/29 12:14:54 -  ***********************************************************
Nov 29, 2006 12:14:54... Info: End of log messages of the target system.
Nov 29, 2006 12:14:54... Info: ***** End of SAP J2EE Engine Deployment (J2EE Application) *****
Nov 29, 2006 12:14:54... Error: Aborted: development component 'caf/tc'/'sap.com'/'MAIN_APL70VAL_C'/'644873':
Caught exception during application deployment from SAP J2EE Engine's deploy service:
java.rmi.RemoteException: Exception in operation update with application sap.com/caf~tc..
Reason: com/sap/caf/metamodel/ApplicationInterface; nested exception is:
     java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/caf/metamodel/ApplicationInterface
(message ID: com.sap.sdm.serverext.servertype.inqmy.extern.EngineApplOnlineDeployerImpl.performAction(DeploymentActionTypes).REMEXC)
Nov 29, 2006 12:14:55... Info: J2EE Engine is in same state (online/offline) as it has been before this deployment process.
Can anyone help me to sort out this problem?

Answer 1

Symptom
JSPM hangs by upgrade from SP4 to SP5 with the following message into the log file:
ERROR: Not updated. Deploy Service returned ERROR: java.rmi.RemoteException: Exception in operation
update with application sap.com/caf~tc..
Reason: com/sap/caf/rt/exception/CAFDeleteException; nested exception is: ,,java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
JUP fails by NW04 SP14 -> NW04s SP5 upgrade with the message into log file:
ERROR: Not updated. Deploy Service returned ERROR: java.rmi.RemoteException: Exception in operation
update with application sap.com/caf~tc..
Reason: com/sap/caf/rt/exception/CAFDeleteException; nested exception is: ,,java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
Reason and Prerequisites
Deployment of CAF component sap.com/caf~tc failed by deployment scenario of type:
1. The application is deployed with a reference to Lib1, where Class A
is included.
2. Then class A is moved from Lib1 to Lib2 (removed from Lib1);
3. Then the new version of the application which has references to both
libraries Lib1 and Lib2 is deployed via SDM;
4. The deployment fails with NoClassDefFoundError: class A.
For patricular case we have the situation:
The class com/sap/caf/rt/exception/CAFDeleteException was moved from
caf/runtime/ear to caf/runtime/api/lib between the SPs.
Solution
Please follow the steps:
1. Close JSPM application
2. Start <device>:\usr\sap\<sid>\JC<instance number>\SDM\program\RemoteGui.bat
3. From the menu invoke "SDM Gui" -> "Login" and enter your SDM password
4. Navigate to tab "Undeployment" and select CAF component caf~tc, press button "Select" and "Start Undeployment" and complete undeployment confirming it.
5. Navigate to tab "Deployment" and select CAF component using plus button and select option "Update deployed SDA/SCAs that have any version" into Deployment configuration options below and complete deployment confirming it.
6. Close "SDM Gui" application.
7. Restart JSPM and on the step "Select package type" select option "Single support packages" in order to update all other components, which left not deployed.
8. On step "Specify Queue" select all not deployed components and complete their deployment.
An alternative way is:
1. If there is a problem with CAF deployment do not stop the upgrade application.
2. Open command prompt and go to SDM\program directory
3. Execute: sdm jstartup "mode=integrated"
4. Execute: startserver
5. After that start the SDM remote GUI application
6. From the menu invoke "SDM Gui" -> "Login" and enter your SDM password
7. Navigate to tab "Undeployment" and select CAF component caf~tc, press button "Select" and "Start Undeployment" and complete undeployment confirming it.
8. Logout and close "SDM Gui" application.
9. In the command prompt execute: stopserver
10. In the command prompt execute: sdm jstartup "mode=standalone"
11. Go to the Upgrade application and restart the process from the point of failure
Best Regards,
Barry.