topic Re: executing swremove in Operating System - HP-UX

executing swremove

Jairo Campana — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:39:13 GMT

Hello , try remove the patch in state corrupt, the swremove finish successfully , when execute swlist -l fileset -a state |grep corru the ouput is :
PHCO_29382.UUCP corrupt
PHSS_33901.CORE-64SLIB corrupt
PHSS_33901.CORE-SHLIBS corrupt
PHSS_33901.LANG-64ALIB corrupt
PHSS_33901.LANG-MIN corrupt

Re: executing swremove

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:10:52 GMT

Shalom Jairo,

I would suggest re-installation of these two patches instead of swremove. They probably are dependencies on these patches preventing proper removal.

SEP

Re: executing swremove

R.KrishnaKumar — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:32:46 GMT

Hi Jairo,

Normally the fileset with the dependancy are not removed. you should now reinstall the dependancy patches.

regards,
Krishna

Re: executing swremove

Chauhan Amit — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:04:40 GMT

Here are the steps you can follow to remove the same:

Step #1 :The solution is to remove the patch from the IPD (Installed Products Database). Before making modifications be sure a good backup of /var/adm/sw has been created in case any modifications need to be backed out.

Step #2 :Create a directory in /tmp called patch_mods. The directory can be in /home or anywhere else except for /var/adm/sw.

Step #3 :Change directories to /var/adm/sw/products.

Step #4 :For each patch found to be in the corrupt state , copy the directory with the name of the patch from /var/adm/sw/products to /tmp/patch_mods.

Step #5 :Run swmodify -a state=configured OS-Core.Q4 to force a build of the IPD. The new IPD will not list the transient patches.

Step #6 :Run swlist -l fileset -a state. The patches whose directories were moved prior to the IPD rebuild should not be listed.

Step #7 :Run swinstall to install the patches again. The reinstall option of swinstall does not need to be on.

Hope this helps.

-Amit