CDE Aries problem

[Bill Kimbell]

I am running HPUX 11.23 on a RX2600. I installed the 8/04 patch bundle and then attempted to install the 9/04 bundle which failed with a corruption problem on patch PHCO_31555. I removed the bundle and now can't login with CDE.
The startlog message tells me I have a Pthread error on line 8836 and ARIES32 does a core dump.
Any suggestions on repairing this?
Thanks.

[Steven E. Protter]

swverify \*

Find out what patches are broken, read the notes and carefully consdier reinstalling with the following command line.

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x reinstall=true -s /full_path/Patch_ID

SEP

[Bill Kimbell]

Thanks Stephen.
Have gone through those steps twice already,
at least it hasn't gotten worse!
Patch and status is back to no corruptions and all filesets configured. (Wish I would have saved that 1st kernel!)
Networking,hostname,all of the normal 'suspects' seem to be fine. Can run failsafe session and launch Netscape, only CDE seems to have been affected.
Bill

[Zygmunt Krawczyk]

1) In file /etc/default/nlspath comment the line NLSPATH=

2) Reinstall PHSS_31832 CDE Applications patch, but shut down
CDE before reinstalling.

The CDE environment can be shut down by running the
following commands as root:
- /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d
- /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -kill
Note that these commands will terminate all CDE sessions
for all CDE users.

Once the patch has been installed, you may start CDE
back up with the following commands:
- /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e
- /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

3) Install new Aries patch
PHSS_32213

Regards,
Zygmunt

[Scot Bean]

Hope you get back to where you were.

I'd be interestd to hear more about the original corruption problem:
- install from download or media?
- if download, do you think the download was suspect?

[Bill Kimbell]

Thanks Zymunt, you gave me a little more insight into CDE. Unfortunately I seem to be in a dependency loop with no exit point.
Apparently PHKL_31500 was installed but corrupt so any attempt to remove and/or install the CDE patches results in a failure because of the PHKL patch. If you try to remove that, you get a message that it would make HPUX unbootable so it won't do it.
At this point its easier to reload the OS.

Scot.. the bundle was downloaded from HP,
BUNDLE11i_B.11.23.0409.3.depot. The dependency BUNDLE from August worked fine.

REMEMBER.. if you have a kernel that's working, make a copy and label it other than .prev!!
Thanks all.
Bill

[Bill Kimbell]

Reloading the OS.