topic Re: swlist hangs in Operating System - HP-UX

swlist hangs

H_16 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:03:16 GMT

I have just installed HPUX 11.23 on a N-Class PA-RISC server, I am running a swlist command however it seems to hang.

Has any of you good fellows seen this problem ?

Re: swlist hangs

Ganesan R — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:17:30 GMT

Hi,

Have you tried with options like swlist -l product, swlist -l bundle, swlist -l fileset ?

Is this directory /var/adm/sw/product exist?

Is this file INDEX exist under the above dir?

Re: swlist hangs

Asif Sharif — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:20:50 GMT

Check the following threads.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=496146
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=199801

Regards,
Asif Sharif

Re: swlist hangs

Pete Randall — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:33:21 GMT

Try stopping and restarting swagentd:

/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

Pete

Re: swlist hangs

H_16 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:47:04 GMT

This server is not connected to the network yet, will this impact the swlist command, if my server is in the /etc/hosts file

Re: swlist hangs

Avinash20 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:26:26 GMT

Yes, this will affect that, since swlist will try to resolve the hostnane to IP address

You could do the following
127.0.0.1 loopback

Do a swlist and try

Re: swlist hangs

Avinash20 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:27:01 GMT

Replace with hostname of the server.

Re: swlist hangs

Avinash20 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:27:55 GMT

Afte changing /etc/hosts you could restart the swagentd daemon

# swagentd -r

and then try swlist

Re: swlist hangs

Mounaam — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:56:07 GMT

Hi,

if file /etc/resolv.conf exists, check in /etc/nsswitch.conf that you have "file" before "dns" for hosts resolution.
If nsswitch.conf doesn't exists, you have to create one (see /etc/nsswitch.* for example).

Regards.