Product gone missing from swlist

[Van den Broeck Tijl]

I wanted to setup shadow passwords for an HP-UX 11i v1 machine using the ShadowPassword_B.11.11.03.depot.

When installing ShadowPW and all the necessary patches included in the depot it stumbles upon an error:
The corequisite
"PHCO_27064.CORE-SHLIBS,fa=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64" for fileset
"ShadowPW.SHADOW,r=B.11.11.03" cannot be successfully
resolved.
ERROR: The dependencies for fileset "ShadowPW.SHADOW,r=B.11.11.03"
cannot be resolved (see previous lines).
You must resolve the above dependencies before operating on
this fileset or change the "enforce_dependencies" option to
"false".
The corequisite
"ShadowPW.SHADOW,r=B.11.11.03,fa=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64" for
fileset "ShadowPW.SHADOW-MAN,r=B.11.11.03" cannot be
successfully resolved.

According to swlist, OS-Core.CORE-SHLIBS is not installed at all. Which I find very weird, since I thought it was a core subproduct.
A further check brings even more confusion, all the files normally installed with the OS-Core.CORE-SHLIBS subproduct are... installed!

It seems to me that the software database "forgot" OS-Core.CORE-SHLIBS.
- Is there a way to re-install the subproduct without causing trouble with allready installed patches such as PHCO_27758.CORE-SHLIBS, PHCO_28605.CORE-SHLIBS, PHCO_30514.CORE-SHLIBS, ...
- Can I let the database "remember" it DOES have OS-Core.CORE-SHLIBS installed, somehow push it back into the software database.

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Tijl,

enforce_dependencies=false in the options menu of swinstall.

Luk

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
have you seen:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1018488

also
man swverify
and
man swreg

[Van den Broeck Tijl]

Thanks Luk, that got me to install the bundle.

But the main problem of database inconsistency still remains.

Peter,
I did check with the swverify, it also complained OS-Core.CORE-SHLIBS was nowhere to be found.
However the product is listed in /var/adm/sw/products/INDEX and I can find it in swagent.log:
* Installing fileset "OS-Core.CORE-SHLIBS,r=B.11.11" (8 of 684). Thus it was installed & registered once.

I can't find it in /var/adm/sw/products/OS-Core, where it should be.

swreg requires a depot file to operate, right? I've only got the folder from the installation cd.

So I'm going to backup the system and manually copy the /var/adm/sw/products/OS-Core/CORE-SHLIBS folder from another machine, so that it is aware of OS-Core.CORE-SHLIBS again.
Are there perhaps any other entries I must update?

[Van den Broeck Tijl]

Ok, that didn't help much either. I copied over /var/adm/sw/products/OS-Core/CORE-SHLIBS and I fixed /var/adm/sw/products/OS-Core/CORE-SHLIBS/INDEX to see the correct patches. Both have been in vain, swlist/swverify still doesn't find it.