11i install problems

[John Walker_3]

Hello,
I installed 11.0 with no probs, but am having issues w/11i. I get the first 2 CDs installed, but keep hanging after a reboot. I am trying to use a serial console but keep getting X server and Desktop login messages. Xerrors shows X pointer open error and fatal IO error 232.
I don't need the CDE just yet and need the console connection to complete the install. The server hangs or I lose stdin/stdout.

dr_dt shows permissions and missing file warnings.

I tried commenting out local@console in /etc/dt/config/Xservers and also
set Dtlogin*terminateServer: True in Xconfig with no luck. Just trying tips from ITRC.

I did an advanced install and took mostly default options except file systems.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm about to re-install 11.0 and forget 11i.

[John Walker_3]

Also, I don't seem able to kill the X server using ctrl shift break, but think it is my emulator keyboard mapping. Is there another way to kill this??

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

You can prevent the dtlogin daemon from starting by editing the file /etc/rc.config.d/desktop and modifying the line

DESKTOP=CDE

to be

DESKTOP=

From the sound of it you may have to boot into single-user mode, do a 'mount -a' so that you have things like vi available, and then edit the file as stated above.

[John Walker_3]

Hi Patrick,
Your suggestion worked, however, I just the dtlogin daemon wasn't the cause of my problem. The workstation (9000/782) still hands on both the serial console and telnet sessions. I am able to get in for a couple of minutes, but then it hangs. Not really being a sys admin, I am not sure what log files to use to trouble shoot.

[Kelli Ward]

Hi,
The easiest log to start with would be to cd /var/adm/syslog and look over the syslog.log and the OLDsyslog.log for any error messages. If you have Onlinediags installed, you should get EMS (Event Monitoring Service) messages. If you do not. I highly recommend doing so. They are on the Support + CD or at software.hp.com
You can get good advanced warning of trouble to come with EMS.

HTH,
Kel

[John Walker_3]

Hi Kel,
My issues is that I can't install anymore software bundles because I lose connectivity. However, single user mode (with mount -a) seems to work well and lets me use SAM. Unfortunately, my hostname is unknown, so I will try one more install. Without the hostname, I am not able to install more bundles. Just setting the hostname gives me a invalid protocol sequence error.

[Pete Randall]

John,

Hostname resolution, perhaps?

Try, in single user mode, "/sbin/set_parms ip_adress" (don't reboot) and the /sbin/set_parms hostname", then reboot.


Pete

[Fragon]

Hi,
Of course your must set the hostname first to install the bundles because you must invoke "swinstall" or other SD-UX tools!
Without setting up hostname incorrectly, even a swlist can't work.
You can modify /etc/rc.config.d/netconf directly in the single user mode!

Have a good day!
-ux

[John Walker_3]

Hello,

hostname and uname -a show server "unknown". I used both set_parms hostname and uname -S to set the name. I am in single user mode. I still cannot install software with sam because of this error:
Could not contact host "bozeman" because of an invalid protocol sequence. Protocol sequences are specified with the

/etc/rc.config.d/netconf looks good. But always after a reboot, hostname and uname -a are unknown. What did I miss. I have set the IP and subnet, but am not using DNS or NIS.

Any ideas???

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi John

Apologies if I'm repeating stuff you've already tried but as you mentioned hostname needs to be defined in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf (HOSTNAME variable) and also in /etc/hosts. Hostname should also be no more than 8 characters.
If you are using set_parms then it should update both these files.

Try editing these 2 files manually instead of set_parms and then re-booting.
Also check that /sbin/init.d/hostname file exists and that there is a link from /sbin/rc1.d directory to this file
(ie S320hostname -> /sbin/init.d/hostname).

Also have a look in /etc/rc.log for any references to /sbin/init.d/hostname.

Cheers
Con

[John Walker_3]

Hi Con,
All of this was in order. This is an issue with single user mode and is not a problem on a standard boot. After hpux -is, I then issue mount -a to have access to file systems and commands.

swlist -s /cdrom gives me a protocol sequence error for rpc_binding_info and swagentd.log shows:
Failure registering as Remote Procedure Call server using protocol sequence "ncacn_ip_tcp" with endpoint "2121". No addresses (dce / rpc)

Command:
swlist -x rpc_binding_info=ncanc_ip_tcp:[2121] -s /cdrom

Returns the same protocol sequence error.

ps -ef|grep dce or rpc does not show any processes.

[John Walker_3]

HI,
I just wanted to thank everyone for their time and input. I'm giving up on 11i and reinstalling 11.0. But thanks for the help.

[Rolf Modin]

I had similar problems installing on HP-UX 11.0. My hostname were too long, so I changed it aided by the answers you got earlier. But the IP-name was the same as before. I could not run swinstall until I changed the Name Service Switch from sam, so that I first look in the /etc/hosts-file and then in DNS for hosts. I don't think the order should be important in this case, but that the search is continued to the other name service if no match is found in the previous one.

Pardon my frensh spelling ;-)
/Rolf