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

kminstall error

Catherine Forget — Thu, 20 May 2004 10:38:38 GMT

Hi,
When doing : kminstal -u krm
I am getting the following error:
"kminstall:could not obtain the boot kernel path"

How can I resolve this?

Thanks for your help

Re: kminstall error

Mel Burslan — Thu, 20 May 2004 10:40:56 GMT

from the man page of kminstall

When called with the -a or -u option, kminstall expects to find the
module's component files in the current directory, and installs or
updates copies of the files under subdirectories of the /usr/conf and
/stand directories.

were you in the same directory as the the module that you were trying to complie was ?

Re: kminstall error

Catherine Forget — Thu, 20 May 2004 10:48:17 GMT

Hi Mel,
yes I was in the same directory.

Re: kminstall error

Mel Burslan — Thu, 20 May 2004 11:02:04 GMT

does the output of dmesg command complain something about DLKM ?

Re: kminstall error

Catherine Forget — Thu, 20 May 2004 11:14:19 GMT

yes I have a message : DKLM is not initialized. How do I initialized it?
I did the following but I get the same message:
#cd /stand/build
#/usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep
-s /stand/build/system

#/usr/sbin/mk_kernel -s /stand/build/system
#mv /stand/system /stand/system.prev
#mv /stand/build/system /stand/system
#kmupdate /stand/build/vmunix_test
#shutdown -r

Re: kminstall error

Mel Burslan — Thu, 20 May 2004 11:23:22 GMT

So, you actually reboot the system after the kmupdate or waiting for a resolution before rebooting it ?

If you already reboot the server, is the DLKM not initialized message still showing up in the syslog ? If you have not reboot yet and did all the steps that you listed above, you should be good to go with the reboot and DLKM not initialized message should not come after the machine comes back up.

Usually this message is related to not running kmupdate after rebuilding the kernel and reboot the server last time.

I would use SAM to rebuild a kernel and do a reboot if manual method is failing at this moment. It may give you some more insightful error messages if this is the case.

Re: kminstall error

RAC_1 — Thu, 20 May 2004 11:29:15 GMT

Kernel was not built properly.

echo "mod_inittialzed/D|adb -k /stand/vmunix

If it returns 0, then DLKM was not initialized.

Build the new kernel.
Backup /stand/vmunix
/stand/system
/stand/dlkm

cd /stand/build
Then system_prep -v -s ./system
kmtune/vi /stand/build/system

mk_kernel -s ./system -v
mv ./system /stand/system
kmupdate ./test_vmunix
cd /
shutdown -ry 0

Anil

Re: kminstall error

Catherine Forget — Thu, 20 May 2004 13:56:53 GMT

Hi Anil,
The echo command returns : "symbol not found"
So, I think I have a bigger problem!

Re: kminstall error

Catherine Forget — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:12:35 GMT

hi again,
the echo command is misspell. I added /dev/mem at the end and I got the return 0. The kmtune command is not good...

Re: kminstall error

RAC_1 — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:15:17 GMT

My typo mistake and completely forot to add /dev/kmem. It is as follows.

echo mod_initialized/D | /usr/bin/adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

Did kernel rebuild resolve your problem?

Anil

Re: kminstall error

Navin Bhat_2 — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:16:03 GMT

If you did a cut and paste from Anil's message then you will have a problem since there is a spelling mistake.

echo "mod_initialized/D"|adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem
mod_initialized:
mod_initialized: 1

Re: kminstall error

Catherine Forget — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:18:01 GMT

the kmtune still does not work, sorry.

Re: kminstall error

Navin Bhat_2 — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:23:10 GMT

kmtune -S /stand/build/system

Re: kminstall error

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:27:20 GMT

Hi,

Try this link from itrc,

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&mode=id&searchString=RCENKBRC00004716&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&search.x=26&search.y=13

The itrc doc id is RCENKBRC00004716.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: kminstall error

Navin Bhat_2 — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:27:28 GMT

Follow these exact steps. They will help.

# cd /stand/build

# /usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep -s system

# mk_kernel -s ./system

# kmupdate /stand/build/vmunix_test

# shutdown -r 0

Your problem should be solved.

Re: kminstall error

Catherine Forget — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:28:20 GMT

Thanks Navin. Now I get Unsatisfied symbole wsio_get_service.
I think I will need to reload the os on that server!

Re: kminstall error

Navin Bhat_2 — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:31:26 GMT

You dont need to reload the OS. Just follow the steps in the last two posts and you should be good to go.

Re: kminstall error

Catherine Forget — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:35:20 GMT

nop! the boot stops after the hpux ... /stand/vmunix

Re: kminstall error

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:35:28 GMT

Hi,

Try this to help with the unsatisfied symbol problems.

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000070865926.

The itrc doc id is KBRC00006788.

Look for the section,

//Quote//

Looking for wsio_get_service ...

//EndQuote//

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: kminstall error

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:39:38 GMT

Hi,

Looks like your current vmunix kernel is corrupted. Use a older / secondary kernel if you.

At the boot prompt,

bo pri
interact with ipl (Y/N) y
at the isl prompt,

type hpux -is (;)/stand/vmunix.old
if you want to boot into single user mode. Do not use "-is" if you don't want to boot into single user mode.

Hope this helps.

Regds