"The attempt to create the job failed" ERROR when trying to run swinstall

[Steven Taylor_1]

When trying to run swinstall, swcopy or swremove, the following is received:

ERROR: The attempt to create the job failed. (Internal error)

ERROR: Command line parsing failed.

The system was working fine until I tried using swinstall after copying software into a depot using swcopy.

The swcopy worked successfully and there appear to be no errors in any of the sw logs associated with it.

I attempted to invoke swinstall by simply typing swinstall (as root).

I have tried stopping and starting the agent (swagentd) and even rebooting the box with no success.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

I'm guessing that the software job queue has become corrupt. Try this:

cd /sbin/init.d
./swagentd stop
mv /var/adm/sw/queue /var/adm/sw/queue.save
./swagentd start

The next invocation of swinstall should create a new queue. It would also be helpful to know if you received any other messages.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Try moving files from var/adm/sw/queue to a safe place and restart the swagent by /usr/sbin/swagentd -r

-USA..

[Mark Greene_1]

Check the following log files in /var/adm/sw

swagent.log swconfig.log swinstall.log swpackage.log swagentd.log swcopy.log swmodify.log swverify.log

You should find some more detailed information about what line is failing.

mark

[Steven Taylor_1]

That's done the job.

I've spent all afternoon trying to figure it out so I'm very grateful.