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

swintall error

Scott D. Allen — Wed, 09 Aug 2000 21:00:51 GMT

I'm installing patch PHSS_20006 (from previous thread on swap and diagmond).

I crashed the swinstall the first time (it froze during analysis) and now when I try to install it, I get the following error and I can't get past it.

"hp9000:/": This target or source is already in use either within this same session or by another session. A read or write lock was denied.

Suggestions?

--Scott

Re: swintall error

wyan lowe — Wed, 09 Aug 2000 21:10:09 GMT

could try:

/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
ps -ef | grep swagent

do you have measureware running?
mwa status

if so, there's a problem between swinstall & mwa.
mwa stop

restart swagentd
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start
swinstall &

after you're done with install, can restart mwa "mwa start"

Re: swintall error

Stacey Rippetoe — Wed, 09 Aug 2000 21:12:55 GMT

The info I gave you will get you back to running swinstall and the info Wyan gave you will help you work around the original hang.

Re: swintall error

wyan lowe — Wed, 09 Aug 2000 21:14:04 GMT

Re: swintall error

Stacey Rippetoe — Wed, 09 Aug 2000 21:14:21 GMT

when swinstall is kill un gracefully, it tends to leave processes running or more
frequently a lock file. First use ps -ef |grep sw and make sure there are swinstall,
swcopy etc processes running, if there are, kill them, if not check for a lock file
under /var/adm/sw/products/swlock and remove it.

Stacey

Re: swintall error

Manju Kampli — Wed, 09 Aug 2000 22:21:04 GMT

before you are running swinstall make sure measureware is not up and running. Do see this run command "mwa status".
To stop this run command "mwa stop".
Also make sure the swinstall lock file /var/adm/sw/products/swlock does not exists. Finally make sure there are no other swinstall process are running. When it crashed, it might have left some process still active on the system. You may have to kill these process. use "/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop" command to stop and "/sbin/init.d/swagentd start" to start the swagent again.