topic Re: Why won't SAM start in Operating System - HP-UX

Why won't SAM start

Michael Elleby III — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:42:22 GMT

In either TUI or GUI mode...

Any suggestions???

Re: Why won't SAM start

Mark Vollmers — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:49:13 GMT

what does it say when you try to run it? It should say if you don't have permission it can't find the file or something. Does it complain or just do nothing at all?

Re: Why won't SAM start

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:52:25 GMT

Check /var/sam/lock directory for a lockfile;
e.g 'lock_1'. If no one else is running sam, remove the file.

Re: Why won't SAM start

Vincenzo Restuccia — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:59:03 GMT

ps -ef|grep -i sam, kill all and with user root start sam.

Re: Why won't SAM start

Michael Elleby III — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:59:28 GMT

Does does nothing at all, but I do note entries in process table whenever I try to execute...

Did see two lock files in /var/sam/lock, and removed them..

Mike-

Re: Why won't SAM start

Mark Vollmers — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:05:07 GMT

are you on a remote system when you exectute it (like telnet in from a workstation)? It may be starting on the server and you do not have the display set right, so you don't see anything. If telnet in, use "export DISPLAY=workstation:0" where workstation is the local machine name.

Mark

Re: Why won't SAM start

Michael Elleby III — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:15:01 GMT

exporting the display is pretty much the first thing I do, what's happening is that sam is coming up, but it stays at the 'Initializing Sam...' and never brings up the initial menu..

Re: Why won't SAM start

Steffi Jones_1 — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:39:37 GMT

Hi Michael,

is it possible that someone else is running sam already?

Try to give it a clean start by killing all open sam windows first.

Check with ps -ef if you see a hung sam process somewhere

Steffi Jones

Re: Why won't SAM start

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:44:52 GMT

If you're trying to bring up the GUI version, you need to be sure an do an 'xhost machine_name' (where machine_name is the name of the machine you are logging into to run SAM) or 'xhost +' on your local machine.

Re: Why won't SAM start

Denver Osborn — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:17:32 GMT

I think I spoke with Mike and we fixed it. Looked in /var/sam/log/samlog and it was attempting to build NIS+ maps. However the box was removed from NIS environment but nis+ deamons were still running.

Mike fixed it by stopping NIS+. Also patch PHNE_17200 addresses SAM hang w/ NIS+ at 11.0