topic Re: Fail to process new kernel in Operating System - HP-UX

Fail to process new kernel

Lance Leung — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:31:31 GMT

Hi, I am working on an HP 11.00 system and am in the process of testing a patch. After I used SAM to add the Subsystems and then tried to process the new kernel, I got a SAM internal error message. Inside the samlog, it says something like: "The current pointer undefined but is needed for this operation. Location: da_list_gets():305Error Code:1302

Any clue on what could be wrong here? And if there is any fix, workaround available? Thanks.

Lance

Re: Fail to process new kernel

S.K. Chan — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:37:44 GMT

What was the last patch/patches that you installed before the error occur ?

Re: Fail to process new kernel

Lance Leung — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:12:53 GMT

Hi S.K.,
The machine is on loan so I don't know which patch was the last one applied. Any particular patch that I should look for? I saw some similar error message related to PHCO_21187 but then I was trying to edit the NIS table.

Lance

Re: Fail to process new kernel

S.K. Chan — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:34:48 GMT

It's quite hard to pin point what's the root cause. Have you looked at /var/sam/log/samlog file to see if you can spot any other error before or after the "da_list_gets" error ? Sometimes SAM misbehaves if you got some "funky" driver in the kernel, etc. I've seen a few times with networking related kernel (but can't rememember which driver). I would install the latest SAM cumulative patch (ie PHCO_23876), this patch actually superseed earlier patches (21187 and 21267) and it has no other dependencies plus it doesn't reboot upon installation. Why don't you give that a try.

Re: Fail to process new kernel

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:48:28 GMT

Hi,

Try the latest sam/obam patch, PHCO_23876

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDisplayPatch/sid=f740775818886ce2de?PACH_NAM=PHCO_23876&HW=s800&OS=11.00

Hope this helps.

Regds.

Re: Fail to process new kernel

Lance Leung — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:11:22 GMT

Hi I think I know what the problem is right now. I tried to rebuild the kernel with the mk_kernel command and this time, I got a bunch of unsatisfied symbols messages. Tracking down these symbols showed me that their patches PHKL_22126 and PHKL_20349 might have been superceded by something else.

Thanks.

Lance