topic Problems Installing Ignite in Operating System - HP-UX

Problems Installing Ignite

John_44 — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:10:34 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to install ignite on a 10.20 system. I do a swinstall -s /var/tmp/ignite etc and I get the swinstall screen and I go through the installation process. The install analysis goes fine, I can look at the log file and it says all is well but the session just hangs with Status: Finishing Analysis and I have to kill the session to get out.

I have tried this a dozen times already and it does not work. I even downloaded another file and it does the same thing. I installed the pax patch before this and had no problem. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I did deinstall an older version of ignite before I tried to install the new one but I don't think that is the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

John

Re: Problems Installing Ignite

Sachin Patel — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:24:54 GMT

Hi John,
1.Make sure that you have ignite for 10.20.
2.What is the last log entry while it hangs? swinstall has option to see log file while it is doing installation.
3.use option-change option and select "reinstall even if same fileset exists.

Sachin

Re: Problems Installing Ignite

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:30:13 GMT

Hi John:

'swinstall' can be very fussy about underlying network issues. I recall running into similar issues once, as you have, although not installing Ignite. If 'measureware' or 'glance' is running, I remember that sometimes 'swinstall' will hang.

One workaround that I always use in interactive 'swinstall' from a telnet sesssion, is to start 'swinstall' as follows:

# swinstall -x rpc_binding_info=ncadg_ip_udp:[2121]

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Problems Installing Ignite

John_44 — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:43:41 GMT

James,

Awesome answer - worked like a charm. Thank you very much!

John

Re: Problems Installing Ignite

Jim Turner — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:58:20 GMT

James,

The "mwa stop" before swinstall has become so routine, I had forgotten about it. As best I recall, there is some sort of buffer contention between MeasureWare and SD-UX. My symptoms were typically that the analysis would pass and the install would get some 10, 20, or 30% complete then just hang dead.

HP's response was pretty humorous. They released a patch which (and I quote) "reduces the liklihood" of the contention. I always wondered why they couldn't cobble-up a patch that would *completely* fix it. Oh, well.

Cheers,
Jim