topic Re: Problem Installing Ignite in Operating System - HP-UX

Problem Installing Ignite

CA1450370 — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:58:19 GMT

I have this HP9000:
# uname -a
HP-UX ss7svws B.11.11 U 9000/778 2005366016 unlimited-user license
and I want to install ignite from my CDROOM, using swinstall -s /cdrom/Ignite-UX-11-11

it asked me about target location, i typed it but swinstall showed me this message:

Could not contact host "ss7svws". Make sure the hostname is correct
and an absolute pathname is specified (beginning with "/").

I am sure that hostname is ok (it is in hosts file)...It doesn´t let me to change the source, which it´s none, it shows me previus message without let type anything...

any ideas?

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:06:27 GMT

Shalom,

/sbin/init.d/swagentd -r

MAke sure the process is running.

swinstall /cdrom/Ignite-UX-11-11 \*

You need to tell it what to install, which in this case would be everything.

SEP

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:18:45 GMT

Hi:

Instead of taking a potentially dated version of Ignite from your CD collection, I suggest you download and install a current one:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/IUX/

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

Berd — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:25:24 GMT

Hi,

I would download the latest version of Ignite, as this will allow you to take advantage of SSH functionality.

Regards,
Berd

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

Tim Nelson — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:23:02 GMT

when swinstall asks for a target location it either means the target is already in use ( i.e. another swinstall process has it locked ), the hostname and IP for this server is goofed up as in swinstall cannot connect to itself, or swagentd is confused.

check for other swinstall or swagent procesess.
check hostname and IP are correct
recycle swagentd ( kill swagentd and restart with swagentd -r )

Double check the /var/adm/sw sw*.log files. It may lead you in the right direction.

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

CA1450370 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:20:07 GMT

Thanks for your answer but i have not solved my problem with them...i thinks there is a misconfiguration in swinstall or swagent.. when i use nslookup it find my host which is localhost... my hostname is correct...

any others ideas?

PS:
I am trying to learn about HP-UX so i eant to install Ignite from my CD, i could try to install a new version later but now I want to use my CDROM version

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

David Bellamy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:46:08 GMT

Did you stop and restart the swagentd daemon

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

CA1450370 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:55:05 GMT

Yes, i stop it and restart it....

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

James George_1 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:03:53 GMT

Hi

Try installing from the swinstall window.

# swinstall

then in the window, select the local CD ROM as source directory .. select the s/w that you want to install .. mark it ( M) ... and install ..

rgds / James

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

CA1450370 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:37:41 GMT

James

swinstall do not let me to do that, when I try it gives me this messages :

Could not contact host "ss7svws". Make sure the hostname is correct
and an absolute pathname is specified (beginning with "/").

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

Fabian Briseño — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:18:35 GMT

Hello.
did you check.

/etc/nsswitch.conf file

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

Sandy Wibawa — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:25:21 GMT

Hi,

Try check your /etc/hosts, make sure all the entry there correct

regards,
Sandy

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

James George_1 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:29:49 GMT

It could be some n/w problem .

Let's try this :

# swinstall -x rpc_time_out=5 - s /cdrom/Ignite-UX-11-11

Rgds / James

Re: Problem Installing Ignite

Raj D. — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:01:13 GMT

CA1450370,

Check your hostname is correctly defined in all the places. If you changed the hostname from command prompt make sure it is reflecting in all the files, better use:
# set_parms hostname , and from the menu choose the option to chage the hostname, you may need a reboot to make the change effective.

From swinstall it's straight forward to install using the cdrom.

Else
- find out the device file,
- mount it in a directory,
- Install the desired sw with swinstall,

Cheers,
Raj.