swinstall

[Maria Pimentel]

I'm trying to install a patch with command 'swinstall -s /cdrom/XSW800GR1020' I typed the command asked to hit enter to continue then it comes back with a pop up screen asking to select target typed /cdrom and an error messages comes up "failed to initialize this agent. Make sure the agent program exists on this host and can be executed." Any idea?

Thanks, Maria

[Marco Santerre]

Did you check to see that swagentd was running?

ps -ef|grep swagent

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Restart the sw agent:

# /usr/sbin/swagentd -r

Then, try the install again interactively:

# swinstall

Following the screen instructions to provide info.

Hai

[Umapathy S]

Maria,
Check whether swagentd is running.

/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

HTH,
Umapathy

[Pete Randall]

Maria,

Whether the swagentd is running or not, the first thing to try is restarting it:

/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

You might also want to verify that hostname resolution is functioning properly: try nslookup by hostname and by ipaddress to check.


Pete

[vasundhara]

Hi,

U please kill the swagentd process and then start it. Some times killing the process and starting it will work rather than stop and start.

Regards
VJ.

[Jorge Pons]

Hi

I suposed you have revised.... cdrom is mounted at /cdrom.