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man lanadmin errors after patching

ConnieK — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 16:14:10 GMT

To all -

Please reference the posting below -

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x219703bbece8d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

I need help to try to correct this problem and possibly call attention to a problem with Patch PHNE_23862.

Can anyone help with my additional questions in the above posting? (I hope you can get to it)

CK

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

harry d brown jr — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 16:23:30 GMT

Before you installed patch PHNE_23862, did you verify that you have the dependency patch of PHCO_10947 ??

Also, what kind of errors are you encountering? What OS, Server class, and lan card?

Also, PHNE_23863 can be used in place of PHNE_23862.

live free or die
harry

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

ConnieK — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:20:00 GMT

Sorry about that -
OS - HPUX B.10.20
Server - HP9000/893 (T600)
LanCard - 100BT

Errors:
#man lanadmin
# Reformatting entry. Wait... aborted (sorry)

#man landiag
(the man page from lanadmin comes back)

#landiag
(the menu page from lanadmin comes back)

#lanadmin
(the menu page from lanadmin comes back)

The dependency PHCO_10947 was contained in the patch depot and was re-installed at the same time.

Entry from the swagent.log:

NOTE: The fileset "PHCO_10947.PHCO_10947,r=B.10.00.00.AA" will be
reinstalled because the "reinstall" option is set to "true".
* Reading source for file information.
NOTE: The patch PHCO_10947 is already installed on the system.
Skipping the installation of PHCO_10947. To reinstall this
patch, deinstall it first before attempting to reinstall it.
NOTE: The "checkinstall" script for "PHCO_10947" gave an "exclude"
return (exit code "3"). The script location was
"/var/tmp/AAAa05562/catalog/PHCO_10947/pfiles/checkinstall".

NOTE: This software will be excluded from further processing.
* Executing preDSA command.

I'm not sure that the error I'm seeing has anything to do with the report in the swagent.log, nor am I sure what to do about it.

Any thoughts?

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

Tom Dawson — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:55:22 GMT

Just a note...
I have a D210 ( 9000/811 ) running 10.20.
I do NOT have PHNE_23862 or PHNE_22216 installed. But I do have PHKL_16751 and PHCO_10947 installed. We do not have a 100 Mbps NIC, only the onboard 10 Mbps.

When I enter "man landiag", I get the lanadmin man page. When I enter "man lanadmin", I get the same lanadmin man page. So it looks like the improper man page for landiag pre-dates these patches.

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

ConnieK — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:00:19 GMT

I think, perhaps, that lanadmin and landiag are one in the same. Even on HPUX 11.x, the same thing happens. It's possible that landiag was a valid command years ago, but has been replaced with lanadmin. However, since some administrators still demand to use "expired" commands - they have been accomodated with new functionality for old commands.

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

fg_1 — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:49:48 GMT

Constance

Landiag was popular in the 9.x and 10.00 world but your right that it has been replaced with lanadmin.

Can you run a lanadmin command from the command line?
ex: lanadmin -x 1

If so, I would also check the patch filesets to ensure that everything from the patch applied properly.

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

harry d brown jr — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:54:00 GMT

lanadmin and landiag are one in the same - do a cksum on both.

As per the man pages:

NOTE: lanadmin replaces the now obsolete landiag command beginning at 10.0.

live free or die
harry

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

ConnieK — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:03:27 GMT

Frank - yes, lanadmin appears to work properly.

The original (and still is) problem was that the #man lanadmin command was causing errors.

Also, how DO you fix, clean up corrupt patches? (reference the posting above - the link)

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

harry d brown jr — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:08:59 GMT

Constance,

Do this:

whereis lanadmin landiag

Note the path to the man pages, like: /usr/share/man/man1m.Z/lanadmin.1m

Now, cd to that directory, and copy landiag (because it is working correctly) and copy it over lanadmin.

cp landiag.1m lanadmin.1m

live free or die
harry

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

Deshpande Prashant — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:09:30 GMT

HI
The help files are in compressed format in /usr/share/man/man1m.Z directory for lanadmin/landiag command.
Check for these files
/usr/share/man/man1m.Z/landiag.1m and lanadmin.1m
If these files are not in comressed format, compress them and then rename back as landiag.1m or lanadmin.1m respectively.

Thanks.
Prashant.

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

ConnieK — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:41:16 GMT

Harry - Thanks! Did as you instructed and it works fine now - no errors.

Just one more thing....

Melvyn Burnard wrote this in the previous post:

You may want to check that all patches are installed AND confiogured by doing:
swlist -l fileset -a state | grep -e transient -e install -e corrupt

and see what you get as output (hopefully nothing)

Well, I did that and received some output - some "corrupt" files on other patches. Should I be concerned? Can you clean these up?

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

harry d brown jr — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:47:21 GMT

Constance,

You should look into applying the latest "patch bundle", Dec 2001 now I believe, for 10.20.

live free or die
harry

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

harry d brown jr — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:48:30 GMT

I should have added that before you do such, make sure you take two full backups, and two make_recoverys (-A for all of vg00), before applying the patch bundle.

live free or die
harry

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

ConnieK — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:50:08 GMT

Aye - true... If only my customer would approve. :(
I'll keep working on them!

Thanks loads all!!!

Re: man lanadmin errors after patching

ConnieK — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:54:28 GMT

Harry - here's another interesting thing about "make_recovery" and HPUX 10.20...

make_recovery (Ignite) is not supported on 10.20. I tried it and got some pretty wierd stuff - then did the research.

Ah well - we continue on.

All the best for the new year!