topic Re: Installation Error in Operating System - HP-UX

Installation Error

tim_145 — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:19:02 GMT

Hi,
This the first time I am doing 110 installation.I have done a fresh installation of 110 core OS and then the support plus bundles everything went fine.But after that when the system rebooted the lan interface failed and the system hanged at NFS configuration.How can I come out of it?
I really appreciate if someone can throw any solutions .
Thanks,
Tim

Re: Installation Error

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:27:17 GMT

Hi Tim,

Press CTRL-\ (control back-slash) to stop the sequence. This will give you console login prompt. Login. Edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf and make NFS_SERVER and NFS_CLIENT to '0'. After control-\, if it is giving "command respawning" errors, then hardboot the server, interact with ISL and go into single user mode by "ISL>hpux -is". Once you are in single user mode, edit the above file and make the corrections. You may have to set your TERM properly. Othewise, you will see garbage in vi session. After setting the TERM, type "clear" and make sure it works. Also edit /etc/fstab and remove any references to NFS mounts. Edit /etc/rc.config.d/netconf and fix the IP address and the route entries. Make sure the IP address is pointing to the correct interface. Once you are done type "init 3" to go to multi-user mode.

-Sri

Re: Installation Error

Bill Hassell — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:29:16 GMT

This is a very common problem. The fix is to reboot into single user mode, then mount /usr, /tmp and /var. Then run vi to edit the file: /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf and set the following variables to zero:

NFS_CLIENT=0
NFS_SERVER=0
AUTOMOUNT=0
START_MOUNTD=0

Then you can reboot. If you need NFS, you can edit the nfsconf file as required once networking (including DNS) is properly configured.

Re: Installation Error

Fragon — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 00:28:27 GMT

Hi,Tim
For Ctrl+\, vi is available and TERM will be OK! But when boot into single user mode, please follow:
[KEY]#fsck -y
#mount -a
to make vi usable! Normally the file system corrupting will occur when NFS service can't start then make a hard boot!

Just a tip!
-ux