topic swinstall in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall

Maria Pimentel — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:29:52 GMT

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

Re: swinstall

Marco Santerre — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:31:58 GMT

Did you check to see that swagentd was running?

ps -ef|grep swagent

Re: swinstall

Hai Nguyen_1 — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:33:51 GMT

Restart the sw agent:

# /usr/sbin/swagentd -r

Then, try the install again interactively:

# swinstall

Following the screen instructions to provide info.

Hai

Re: swinstall

Umapathy S — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:34:32 GMT

Maria,
Check whether swagentd is running.

/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

HTH,
Umapathy

Re: swinstall

Pete Randall — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:34:58 GMT

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

Re: swinstall

vasundhara — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:58:30 GMT

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.

Re: swinstall

Jorge Pons — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:06:52 GMT

Hi

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