issue with swinstall

[someone_4]

Hello
I am having an trying to use swinstall to install somw patches localy.This the error I am getting:

| | A Remote Procedure Call to an agent has failed. Could not start a | |
|+--| management session for "nnm01:/". Make sure the host is accessible |--+ |
|| | from the network.

I have tried the following.

Restarted swagentd two ways.
swangentd -r
/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

move resolv.conf to resolv.conf.old
and set nsswitch.conf to just use files. Then restarted swagentd.

I set nsswitch.conf to
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue TRYAGAIN=continue] dns

edited /etc/hosts to only have 3 entries for the hosts its self. And then restarted swagentd.

I tried /etc/hosts with the loopback address on the top fo the 3 entries and then back to the bottom of the 3 entries.

I do an nslookup and everything comes back fine.

uname and hostname come back fine.

And then a combo of a few things that I tried before. But still nothing.

Does anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks
Richard

[Ross Zubritski]

Hi Richard,

Stupid question, but can you ping nnm01?

Regards,

RZ

[someone_4]

Hi Ross,

The only stupid question is the question not asked.

And yes I can ping nnm01.
nnm01 is the localhost..

richard

[Ross Zubritski]

You don't have a duplicate in hosts, do you?

i.e.

127.0.0.1 nnm01
X.X.X.X nnm01
Y.Y.Y.Y nnm01

Regards,
RZ

[Michael Duthie]

Richard,

Bordering on another stupid question.

What about Telnet & rlogin. Do they work?

[Gene Kornacki_3]

Did you look for a zombie process that might be an aborted swinstall? Or a current swagentd that's running and getting in your way somehow?

If you can't find anything there I would try a reboot. If still nothing I would try going through {set_parms initial} and look at all your settings to be sure they are correct.

[John Poff]

Hi Richard,

Are there any clues in your /var/adm/sw/swagentd.log file? Are all the rpc daemons running?

JP