> Wish I would have read this yesterday.  I'm in the middle of an
> upgrade right now and all my window's policies are slowly being
> converted right now.  I figure it should finish in 10 hours.  I'm
> very lucky to have the ability to keep this env down this long.
> Little upset that this known issue wasn't published on the 7.1 late
> breaking news website.

Did you call support?  You don't have to wait it out.

When I first called it in, I received the "run-time workaround" (my
phrase) which is to do a ps, kill the bpdbm process shown, repeat
until done.  My understanding is that bpdbm is the process waiting
five minutes to time out for each client; killing it over and over
will get through that part as fast as you can repeat (or script) the
ps/kill.  

When the "upgrade the hardware definitions of the client" part is
done, either from it going through all your clients five minutes at a
time, or by you killing them to speed the loop, the upgrade will
finish as normal.  At that point, run the bpplconvert manually, which
will work normally and be done in a second or two.

Whether you let it go 10 hours, timing out on each client, or use the
ps/kill method, the upgrade is the same:  successful except for those
client hardware definition updates.  Running the bpplconvert then
corrects that in milliseconds.


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