topic Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall depot after ux11i install

Peter Gillis — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:34:55 GMT

Hi.
I have just installed ux11i. Now need to install goldqpk11i. Everytime I issue command:
swinstall -s /cdrom/goldqpk11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true
I am getting response: /cdrom/goldqpk11i not a valid depot.
how can I get a valid depot? I know it will be easy points for someone.....
Maria

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

Michael Tully — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:43:31 GMT

Funny, I was just teaching someone else here how to do some patches. I would prefer using the TUI (terminal user interface) for patches, but anyway this should work.

swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true \*

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

Peter Gillis — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:47:31 GMT

hi Michael,
I tried that. I tried /cdrom. I also tried /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i and /cdrom/goldqpk11i

All had the same response.
I'm stumped.
Maria

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

Michael Tully — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:54:04 GMT

ok, let's try this then:
swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true \*

swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDAPPS11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true \*

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

Peter Gillis — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:05:56 GMT

Michael,

Same result..
here is screen dump...
# swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true

======= 07/29/04 11:52:23 EST BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive) (jobid=char-0012)
* Session started for user "root@char".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "char:/".
ERROR: There is currently no depot software on host
"char" at location
"/cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i". Make sure that an absolute
pathname is specified for location (beginning with "/").
* Source connection failed for
"char:/cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i".
WARNING: More information may be found in the daemon logfile on this
target (default location is
char:/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log).
* Selection had errors.
I've also tried registering the cd as a depot. All with the same result.

Any ideas .
Maria

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:43:38 GMT

Well, try doing an 'ls -lR /cdrom' and see what exactly you have there. If you want, post the results and we can try to diagnose the problem a bit further.

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

Peter Gillis — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:09:11 GMT

Hello again...
I worked it out.!!!
Managed to umount /cdrom and then remount with the -r option. Then cd /cdrom and issued the swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i -x patch_match_target=true -x autoreboot=true. Has installed and the system is currently rebooting. Reckon the original problem was the cdrom being mounted with the -o option and a number of processes hanging onto the device. Had to kill them!
Thankyou so much for your time in trying to help me out.
Maria

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

Thorsten Kuhn — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 03:11:41 GMT

Hi

same problem here.

Did
#mount -r -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /cdrom
and
#mount -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /cdrom

both ways I get the error message "There is currently no Depot Software on host..."

I also tried "Find local cdrom" at the Specify Source from swinstall Gui.

Thanks in advance
Thorsten

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

venugopalakrishna.y.r — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 03:42:08 GMT

hello,

mount your cd on /SD_CDROM mount point and then try installing patches.

venu

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

Thorsten Kuhn — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 04:06:39 GMT

Thanks it works now :)

#mount -r /dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /SD_CDROM

Why? /SD_CDROM special mount point for Software Depot???

Thanks
Thorsten

Re: swinstall depot after ux11i install

Muthukumar_5 — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 05:13:07 GMT

swinstall is trying to analyse the absolute path on / as "/cdrom/GOLDQPK11i/GOLDBASE11i"
If you use -s then you have to use exact absolute path. You can use tape drives device path as an absolute one.
Not the special device of CD.. If you are going to make an operation depends upon a special device, you have mount it. To take a usage on those files.

And more swinstall -s option will handle only tap drive path depot's as path in disk's. and not in special devices..!!
swinstall did not success and prompted error's because of not obtaining the absolute path to take the depot.

-- muthu --