topic Re: while swconfig the subsystem we are getting error in Operating System - HP-UX

while swconfig the subsystem we are getting error

ossrte — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:59:59 GMT

hi guys we are getting the following error while doing the swconfig for the subsystem
* Beginning Selection
ERROR: "pulsar2:/": This target or source is already in use either
within this same session or by another session. A read or
write lock was denied.
what i have to do for resolving this

Re: while swconfig the subsystem we are getting error

Dennis Handly — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:14:03 GMT

Is anyone else doing a swinstall or swconfig, etc. on this system?

You might want to use ps -ef to see if there is any sw command running besides demons.

If not, did you abort a SD command in the past?
If so, you may have to clean up the lock file.
Possible in here? /var/adm/sw/queue

Re: while swconfig the subsystem we are getting error

ossrte — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:35:17 GMT

yes i have aborted the eriler session due to some problem
now i want to configure them
how do i clear this lock

Re: while swconfig the subsystem we are getting error

Dennis Handly — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:47:05 GMT

>how do i clear this lock

You could look in /var/adm/sw/queue/.
Or you may want to look at other threads that stop and start swagentd, that may clean it up:
# /usr/sbin/swagentd -r

Re: while swconfig the subsystem we are getting error

avik — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:10:10 GMT

a. find out the pid that locking the session from /var/adm/swagent/swagentd.log

b. kill that PID. Do a ps -ef | grep to make sure the kill was sucessfull

c. restart the swagent daemon "swagentd -r"

Re: while swconfig the subsystem we are getting error

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:23:59 GMT

Shalom,

Welcome to the forums.

The most common cause of this issue is what you did, killing a running sd-ux session.

Restarting swagentd does reset the lock.
Restarting the entire system does as well.
Deleting the lock file manually normally does reset the lock. Even when the running process is killed, the lock file is often left behind.

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