Error on HP-UX 11.11

[jmckinzie]

Please help,

I am receiving this message on my server:

Warning, the kernel and core release versions don't match.

How do i fix?

-TIA
Jody

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jody:

So, what did you last do? Did you boot from a previous kernel?

Regards!

...JRF...

[jmckinzie]

So far, nothing has been done.

Not too sure why this is occuring...

Typically when faced with a problem, I look here to see if anyone has ideas or search the forum but, that isn't working now either.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jody:

Under what circumstances are you seeing the warning --- i.e. in the syslog? when you execute a command? what command?

By the way, you have other un-related threads that received attention and which you have not evaluated. Would you please be so kind?

Regards!

...JRF...

[jmckinzie]

This message is in syslog.

I will add points....

I always mean to just get busy....

I know you have answered many of my questions.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi (again) Jody:

When did you first see the message? You should try tracking though 'syslog.log' *and* 'OLDsyslog.log' at least.

If you can isolate a time at which the message first appeared, you may be able to discern what changed.

Is there a particular command that causes the message to manifest itself?

Did you reboot from a previous kernel?

Did you fudge with the running kernel with 'adb'?

Did you copy any core binaries onto the server from another?

What symptoms besides the warning message are you experiencing?

Regards!

...JRF...

[Bob E Campbell]

Does the swverify command show anything? Run:

# swverify \*

and check its output as well as the new contents of /var/adm/sw/swagent.log.

[jmckinzie]

This is happening when an adb is performed.

Any ideas?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Jody:

> This is happening when an adb is performed.

Well, that's one of the things I asked :-)

You need to be more specific. Exactly what command (arguments) did you use and what where you trying to accomplish?

Regards!

...JRF...

[jmckinzie]

James,

My mistake.

Here is the specifics.

echo phys_mem_pages/D|adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/mem Warning, the kernel and core release versions don't match. This may also be due to crashfile corruption. Proceeding anyway. phys_mem_pages: phys_mem_pages: 1572864

[jmckinzie]

BTW, I am working towards submitting points to all my questions now.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jody:

The Knowledge database has a document ( id# ucr_na-KMN8606299037_ssb-1 ) that shows a similar message for 'adb' after a vPar software installation. Does this match your environment?

Regards!

...JRF...

[jmckinzie]

No, there are no virtual partitions installed on this host (I think thats what vpar means)

This is a simple host running HP-UX 11.11 and a few databases.

It is however in a cluster.

Appreciate the help.

[Don Morris_1]

Sure looks to me like the box was booted from something other than /stand/vmunix (like /stand/vmunix.other or whatnot).

Check your console logs or your syslog (in the former case, you should see what was passed to the boot loader... in the latter, look for the kernel file stamp [usually just before the Memory Information line if I recall 11.11 correctly], then compare that to 'what /stand/vmunix |grep vmunix' and you should see the difference... repeat with any other vmunix files in /stand and you should be able to find the one you're actually running fairly quickly).

Sorry if there's an easy command to do this -- I've been working with nothing but kconfig equipped systems for some time, so I don't really remember how I used to track this down. [One thing about kernel development, we boot from a lot of different kernels...]

[jmckinzie]

Dos nayone know how to find out which kernel I booted from?

i cant find it in the logs.

[jmckinzie]

This is how the error is coming up:


root@host:/
# echo phys_mem_pages/D|adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/mem


Warning, the kernel and core release versions don't match.

This may also be due to crashfile corruption.
Proceeding anyway.

phys_mem_pages:
phys_mem_pages: 1572864

[jmckinzie]

# kmpath
/stand/vmunix
root@truman:/


So, that rules out a differnet kernel...