Upgrade from ERP 5.0 to ERP 6.0 EHP 4 SP5 - phase START_SHDI_FIRST

operating system: iSeries V6R1
(this one is probably for Volker Güldenpfennig...a Happy New Year from Germany!)
SID: AP4
instance number normal: 00
instance number shadow: 08
hostname: ap400c
error in phase MAIN_SHADOW/START_SHDI_FIRST:
shadow instance does not start
effect: The subsystem R3_08 ist started immediately but no process at all appears in WRKACTJOB.
The upgrade program hangs for about 5 minutes and then shows the error message below.
SAP note 525677 is already known but does not help.
error message:
To analyse the errors during start of shadow instance,
       view files 'STARTSFI.LOG' and 'DEVTRACE.LOG'
       in directory '/usr/sap/AP4/upg/abap/log'
       Repeat phase until shadow instance is started
       and you can log on instance number '08'.
STARTSFI.LOG:
BUT: The file DEVTRACE does not exist at all !!!
From previous upgrades I knew that this phase brings quite some trouble so I already did this:
- giving special right *ALLOBJ to user AP408 and AP4ADM (with WRKUSRPRF)
- SAP note 1168235, page 9: file /usr/sap//upg/abap/SYS/global/ms_acl_info
    1.) deleted
    2.) qualified hostname (HOST=ap400c.apetito.de) used
    3.) (HOST=*) used
Before restarting the phase I always ended the subsystem as QSECOFR with ENDSBS SBS(R3_08) OPTION(*IMMED).
showipc 08 shows no entries.
THIS IS THE INTERESTING PART!!!
After some deeper investigation I found this:
In /usr/sap/AP4/upg/abap/bin/SHADOW.TPP there are these lines:
AP4/startsap    = /usr/sap/AP4/upg/abap/AP4/homeshd/ap4adm/startsap SID(AP4) INSTANCE(08) PROFILE
('/usr/sap/AP4/upg/abap/AP4/SYS/profile/START_DVEBMGS08_ap400c') DVEBMGS08
AP4/stopsap     = /usr/sap/AP4/upg/abap/AP4/homeshd/ap4adm/stopsap SID(AP4) INSTANCE(08) WAIT(*YES) WAITTIME(600) DVEBMGS08
but the directory .../homeshd/ap4adm does not exist all (sounds very UNIX-like to me).
I changed the SHADOW.TPP file and used "/usr/sap/AP4/upg/abap/exe/startsap" and "/usr/sap/AP4/upg/abap/exe/stopsap"
but this file seems to be created every time this phase starts.
So I copied the two programs "startsap" and "stopsap" from /usr/sap/AP4/upg/abap/exe to the manually created directory
/usr/sap/AP4/upg/abap/AP4/homeshd/ap4adm
Any ideas? (Maybe the R3INLPGM sucks...?)
Kind regards
Rüdiger Höckel
Edited by: Rüdiger Höckel on Jan 8, 2010 5:39 PM

Rudiger,
Hello from cold Minnesota, USA! We are also upgrading from ERP2004 to ERP 6.0 EHP 4 SP4 on IBM i V6R1 and had a similar START_SHDI_FIRST issue that may be relevant to your problem.
As in your post no shadow system jobs appeared in WRKACTJOB and no DEVTRACE file was created. After after some time an RFC category message was shown in the upgrade GUI but turned out not relevent for us.
A QZSHSH control job launches two (2) SBMJOB commands calling R3INLPGM with parameters to start the shadow instance. In our case these SBMJOB commands were failing because the SAPINLPGM program invoked by this process wasn't found in library SAP<SID>70UP. I copied the missing SAPINLPGM program from library SAP<SID>70U to SAP<SID>70UP and restarted the upgrade GUI and the shadow instance then started as expected without further issue.
If this doesn't solve the problem try temporarily changing your shadow instance ("R3_08") job description (*JOBD) in R3<SID>400 to better trace the failing SBMJOB commands--> CHGJOBD JOBD(R3_08) .... LOG(4 00 SECLVL) LOGCLPGM(YES). Then rerun the upgrade GUI and after the "start failure" message appears check the QEZJOBLOG (or your default) outqueue for the SBMJOB process SAPSTART and SAPSTRSRV joblogs and see why these are not launching correctly.
Also should you run into the "Symbol o4_getpwnam (number xxx) not exported..." obscure error updating tp and retrans to current patch levels in the ECC5 (640) system took care of that issue for us.
HTH and best of luck with your upgrade(s) :>
Scott

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