Can't install patches

[Martin Johnson]

Your "create_depot_hp-ux_11" appears to want to do everything in /tmp. Is /tmp large enough to hanle it?

It appears that the swverify has failed. have you looked into the /var/adm/sw/swverify.log for more information?

HTH
Marty

[Michael Tully]

I agree with Martin, check the log for the disk space analysis, you'll find that /tmp is the problem.
Either increase it using 'ignite' or use a different filesystem to have your depots reside. You can change the "create_depot_hp-ux_11" script to whatever directory/filesystem you choose.

[Ray Brewer]

We have run into problems where the patch file gets corrupted durring the download or ftp process. It would allow us to swcopy the patch to a depot or create a depot with the patch in it but would fail on installation. Also we have run into situations where HP has had to replace the file on their ftp site because it was corrupt. Since you are getting a "corrupt" error message I would suggest downloading the patch again (verify your ftp settings) and try your install again. If it was a space problem I would expect to see a failed analysis message for the entire patch not just one fileset.

Ray

[Dan_298]

Hi all,

Thanks for the quick replies.

I checked the following log files:

/var/adm/sw/swverify.log
/var/adm/sw/swagent.log
/var/adm/sw/swinstall.log

and didn't see any indication of problems related to the space availability in /tmp.
Currently, /tmp has about 47MB
of free space, which I think is enough.

Also, I tried installing the file in /opt, which has about 377MB of free space, and that too didn't work. So I don't think that disk space is the problem.

Could it be that the patches.tar.gz file that I download on my pc and then ftp to the HP box, becomes corrupt
during the ftp process. Since I don't have the "cumulative ARPA Transport patch" I'm thinkig that this may be what's causing the problem.
But I can't install this patch
just like I can't install any other patch.

I also tried installing the patch without running the
"create_depot_hp-ux_11" script but instead following HP's installtion instrucions (doing "sh PATCH_NAME", followed by
"swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -x patch_save_files=false -s /tmp/PATCH_NAME.depot"), but that didn't work either.

Are there any other issues that may be affecting my installations?
Thanks for all the help

[Martin Johnson]

When you downloaded the file, did you make sure the ftp was done in binary mode?

HTH
Marty