topic Re: boot error in Operating System - HP-UX

boot error

Francesco Animali — Mon, 21 May 2007 05:21:30 GMT

Hi,

just installed HP-UX 11.11 on a visualise B2000.

I am getting the following error:

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.
Will try again in 5 minutes.
Check for possible errors.
id: id:samd "/usr/sam/lbin/ samd # system mgmt daemon"

on top of that the system doesn't start Xwindows, and hangs up. I think the two errors might be correlated.
Do you have any idea how I can jump start my system? In another forum you point to a document but I am not able to see the document.

Can you help?
thanks a lot.

Re: boot error

V. Nyga — Mon, 21 May 2007 05:42:36 GMT

Hi,

check if this patch is installed
PHCO_31314

This is an excert from the patch details:

JAGae45106) On system boot, the following message is
displayed due to a inittab failure:
--------------------------------------------
INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.
Will try again in 5 minutes.
Check for possible errors.
id:samd "/usr/sam/lbin/samd # system mgmt
daemon"

Volkmar

Re: boot error

V. Nyga — Mon, 21 May 2007 05:46:22 GMT

Sorry,

this is the latest 'cumulative SAM patch':
PHCO_35520

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHCO_35520&sel={hpux:11.11,}&BC=main|search|

HTH
Volkmar

Re: boot error

Rasheed Tamton — Mon, 21 May 2007 05:48:29 GMT

Hi,

You can modify the line in /etc/inittab (or change the respawn action to off)

man init

samd:23456:respawn:/usr/sam/lbin/samd # system mgmt daemon

Modify the entry in inittab and run "init q".

init Q|q Re-examine the inittab entries without changing the run
level.

Regards.

Re: boot error

Asif Sharif — Mon, 21 May 2007 05:52:32 GMT

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=967523

Re: boot error

Francesco Animali — Mon, 21 May 2007 06:25:58 GMT

Thanks for the patch, I will try installing it and see if it solve the issue.

Will let you know. Thanks for the quickest response ever :-)

f

Re: boot error

placitasmd — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:30:50 GMT

Make sure that you have the keyboard and mouse plugge din and operational.

Re: boot error

placitasmd — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:31:03 GMT

Make sure that you have the keyboard and mouse plugged in and operational.

Re: boot error

Francesco Animali — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:16:20 GMT

Hi, I am acrually using HP usb keyboard and mouse, but I have read on your forums that the usb mouse could give errors during boot.

I couldn't install the patch as yet. Infact I don't know how to put the patch files on the machine, since the machine doesn't connect to network.

How should I modify the inittab in order to have the machine starting in runlevel 3?

Re: boot error

Rasheed Tamton — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:22:59 GMT

#grep defaul /etc/inittab
init:3:initdefault:

vi /etc/inittab
and change the second field to 3. It normally is if none modified it.

Then run
inetd -c
or
/sbin/init.d/inetd stop
/sbin/init.d/inetd start

Rgds.

Re: boot error

V. Nyga — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:43:14 GMT

Hi,

check with 'swlist -l product|grep SAM'
if you already have a patch installed.

USB mouse - which one do you use (model?) - did it come with the ws, then should it be no problem ...

Have you checked this forum with the search option?

Do you have a support agreement?
Check for example:
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en&docId=emr_na-c01031186-1

HTH
Volkmar

Re: boot error

Marcel Burggraeve — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:29:40 GMT

Not having the system on a network might be the cause of your problem here.
But that depends on the configuration you entered after the first boot for the network configuration.
Reboot your system and interrupt the boot process when it tells you to.
Type bo pri at the command prompt
Type hpux -is at the command prompt
System will boot to single user mode now.
Type mount -a or mountall

Now go and check the following files for your network configuration :
/etc/hosts ( hostname and IP address of the host )
/etc/nsswitch.conf ( order of things to try for name resolution )
/etc/resolv.conf ( if it exists declaration of nameservers )
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf ( IP address of the system, gateway and such )

The IP address in /etc/hosts should be the same as in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf
same goes for the hostname in both files.
There should be no route information in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf
If /etc/nsswitch.conf exists it should say just files after the hosts entry.
/etc/resolv.conf should have no nameservers listed.

This should get you started at least.
You can also do a set_parms initial to redo all configuration you entered after the first boot.

Re: boot error

Francesco Animali — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:43:46 GMT

Thanks a lot Marcel,

it was the network indeed. I will keep your suggestions for future reference.

Thanks and congrats for the good quality of this forum.

Francesco Animali