Automount Fails

[Nagamani_1]

Hi,
We have HP K9000 servers with HPUX 11. These are NIS & NFS clients. NIS & NFS server is a Linux Box wth Madrake 5.3. On one of the HPs automount daemon fails often, though its still bound to NIS domain. The mountpoints are taken from maps and not locally
Is it due to Linux being the NIS server.?

regds
Nag

[harry d brown jr]

Do you have all of the latest patches? There are a few NIS and automount patches available. If you have access to the HP patch analyzer, then you should run it, load the patches, then see if you still have the problem.

[Nagamani_1]

Thanks for the reply.Shall take ur advise and reply

regds
Nag

[Nagamani_1]

Hi Harry
Taking ur advise started updating the NFS Kernel General Performance Patch(PHNE_24034)
The servers were never updated with patches since it was installed(about 2 1/2 years back i guess). We do not have service agreement so no patch tools to analyse.
While updating certain patches which are dependencies of PHNE_24034 on Kclass HP9000/HP-UX 11.00 servers the system crashed.

patch PHNE_17662
PHKL_20170
caused sytem to crash. The swagent.log had this info
/usr/ccs/bin/ld :unsatisfied symbols
streams_cleanup(code)
allocb_dupb (code)
streams_select2 (code)
dupbn (code)

Also PHNE_17662 is supeseded by PHNE_24715 but this patch depends on PHNE_22566 and PHNE_22566.text says it depend on PHNE_17662. So i have reached a deadlock here.

Are these two patches a must since the documents say they are not critical.

On analysing the patch update failures, i feel PHNE_xxx patch fails.

2) How do i make sw depot. I am installing patch one by one .Since most of these patches needs a reboot, this is very painful task.

3)How do i remove the patch which is causing the crash.?


regds
Nag

[Santosh Nair_1 · Accepted solution]

There are numerous discussions on how to bundles patches into one depot. For example, read this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x75edc6af36b7d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Basically, it boils down to the following steps (paraphrasing from JRF):

#!/usr/bin/sh
cd /tmp
for X in PH*.htm
do
sh $X
done
mkdir /tmp/patch_depot
for X in PH*.depot
do
swcopy -s ${PWD}/${X} \* @ /tmp/patch_depot
done
swlist -s /tmp/patch_depot
exit 0
#.end.

Bundle the two patches, PHNE_22566 and PHNE_24715 together and install them on the system. This should take care of this problem. Make sure you have your old kernel just in case things fail. Hopefully you have a make_recovery tape of the system before you started (?)

-Santosh