[Info-vax] Problem upgrading to 8.4 on Itanium (from 8.3-1H1)

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In article <2a6462ad-a560-4de1-92a7-a73380717e9e at 1g2000vbu.googlegroups.com>, Dave <BaxterD at tessco.com> writes:
>45 minutes in to the UPGRADE (on bl860c), I get the following message.
>
>Portion done: 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%
>
>%PCSI-E-WRITEERR, error writing DISK$SYSI64_V84:[VMS$COMMON.]
>[SYSHLP]HELPLIB.HLB;2
>-LBR-E-DUPKEY, duplicate key in index
>%PCSI-E-OPFAILED, operation failed
>Terminating is strongly recommended.  Do you want to terminate? [YES]
>
>I seem to recall seeing somewhere that this can be overruled!!
>Can anyone shed light on how I should deal with this.

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