auto-reboot help

[Stephen Badgett]

Hi,

I installed the patch PHKL_29198 on our HP-UX 11.11 machine as the Oracle documentation requested and the server rebooted but I thought autoreboot=true, when using the swinstall, would require no intervention from me during the reboot. I was using a Reflection window to do the patch install and it installed with no errors. After the reboot I tried to login using Reflections again and I get the -Connection refused by host- message. Ok, so I tried a telnet

telnet hal
Trying...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

a ping is ok too.

The patch documentation instruction â ¦

1. Back up your system before installing a patch.
2. Login as root.
3. Copy the patch to the /tmp directory.
4. Move to the /tmp directory and unshar the patch:
cd /tmp
sh PHKL_29198
5. Run swinstall to install the patch:
swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s /tmp/PHKL_29198.depot

I am fairly new at doing this type of thing and I was just trying to follow these steps without having issues. The word autoreboot means what in this case and what could of gone wrong in the way I did this install?

St

[Sundar_7]

Do u have physical access to the system or any kind of remote console capablities ?

Since the error message is "connection refused" for a client which was able to successfully connect to the server, only thing I could think of is to make sure u telnet ONLY after the system completed executing all the startup scripts.

[Bryan D. Quinn]

Hello,

Are you sure that your setboot option, autoboot, is on for that server? The autoreboot option on swinstall just means that after the software is installed the system can reboot without you manually performing the reboot. That is fine and dandy, but if you have the autoboot option set to OFF, the box is not going to come up without you manually booting it.

Hope this helps!
-Bryan

[Bryan D. Quinn · Accepted solution]

Hello again,

Ok, I re-read my post and I think it was a little confusing....here is my attempt to clarify.

Autoboot, which is set ON or OFF using the setboot -b option, allows your box to boot automatically if it is ON. If it is set to OFF, then the box will boot to a menu and sit there until you manually boot it.

Autoreboot is an option for swinstall that tells swinstall to go ahead and boot the box after installing the software. If the autoboot option above is not set to ON, then the box still will not boot up.

Hopefully that cleared it up a little more.

-Bryan

[Stephen Badgett]

This is very good information and has helped. I can ask my admin to reboot the machine since I do not have direct access to the machine and that should not be a problem.

The "setboot" command might be what is delaying the reboot. I asked our admin the question and not heard back yet on this setting.

Thank you all for the great answers

Steve