topic Re: how to fix corrupt patch in Operating System - HP-UX

how to fix corrupt patch

Chris Fadrowski — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 09:50:20 GMT

I was doing a security check run this morning and my system came up with a corrupt patch.

When i view /var/adm/sw/save/*patch_name*/....
i get this..

oot@hostname:/var/adm/sw/save/PHCO_28718/UX-CORE/usr/sbin>strings wall*
:$Revision: 92453-07 linker linker crt0.o B.10.60 970821 $
/usr/lib/dld.sl
ERROR: mmap failed for dld
ERROR: mmap failed for TSD
@(#) $Revision: 72.1 $
%s??
forkfailed
/dev/%s
Cannot send to %.-8s
open
Broadcast Message from %s (%s) %19.19s
to group %s
Only one group allowed
Group name missing
Unknown group %s
/dev/123456789012

any idea why this failed and what should i do with this corrupt patch.. Is there a good way to fix these?

Re: how to fix corrupt patch

Stefan Farrelly — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 09:54:05 GMT

Reinstall it;
swinstall -x reinstall=true -s

That should fix the corrption. In rare cases you may need to swremove the patch first then swinstall it.

Re: how to fix corrupt patch

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:12:17 GMT

swremove PHCP_#####

as root

That will get rid of it unless there are dependency problems.

SEP