topic Re: swlist -l bundle gives error in Operating System - HP-UX

swlist -l bundle gives error

Sameek — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:04:23 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to find out what packages are installed on the HPUX B.11.31 box.

I am using the following command:
#swlist -l bundle

However I am getting the following error.
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "epc-cr-h"...
WARNING: An attempt to get the network host entry for "epc-cr-h"
failed. This may result in denial of access to users and
agents at this host. Check the spelling of this name, then
your "/etc/hosts" file, or your "/etc/resolv.conf" file and
DNS resolver configuration. The nslookup program may be
helpful in isolating this problem.
ERROR: Internal error. Security check failed unexpectedly. This
error occurred in function "idam_LocateLocalFile", source file
"id.c", line 4754. Please give this information to your
Hewlett-Packard support contact.
ERROR: "epc-cr-h:/": You do not have permission for this operation.
The depot owner, system administrator, or alternate root owner
may need to use the "swreg" or "swacl" command to give you
permission. Or, to manage applications designed and packaged
for nonprivileged mode, see the "run_as_superuser" option in
the "sd" man page.

I tried running swreg and swacl command but gives similar errors. Please Help.

Re: swlist -l bundle gives error

Ivan Krastev — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:16:49 GMT

Have you ever checked resolving? See WARNING section.

regards,
ivan

Re: swlist -l bundle gives error

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:20:07 GMT

Shalom,

Are you running this as root?

SEP

Re: swlist -l bundle gives error

Tingli — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:29:41 GMT

Use ps -eaf to check
/usr/sbin/swagentd -r

if not, start it.

Re: swlist -l bundle gives error

likid0 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:25:29 GMT

Hy,

As it says:

WARNING: An attempt to get the network host entry for "epc-cr-h"
failed.

fix your /etc/host or DNS to resolve the hostname epc-cr-h

Re: swlist -l bundle gives error

Sameek — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:22:18 GMT

yes I am running this as root. I tried both from console ans well as remote location. Both gives same results.

Re: swlist -l bundle gives error

Johnson Punniyalingam — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:29:52 GMT

Hi Sameek,

Can please check nsswitch.conf file

more /etc/nsswitch.conf

looks to me that would be case of this problem

also please compare the nsswitch.conf file with any other server,

please the below example file of My "nsswitch.conf " file
Example:-
========

passwd: files
group: files
hosts: files dns
services: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
publickey: files
netgroup: files
automount: files
aliases: files

Thanks,
Johnson

Re: swlist -l bundle gives error

Sameek — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:44:19 GMT

That did it. nsswitch.conf file was the problem. There was no /etc/nsswitch.conf file. I copied /etc/nsswitch.hp_defaults to nsswitch.conf and changed the order in the hosts section.

originally it was:
hosts: dns [NOTFOUND=return] nis [NOTFOUND=return] files

I changed it to:
hosts: files dns [NOTFOUND=return] nis [NOTFOUND=return]

That did it. Thanks everybody! Especially Johnson.