get_sysfile:nlist64 to /stand/vmunix failed, errno=0

[Rajesh R_2]

Hai,

I was trying to apply a Hardware patch HWE1100_B.11.00.0403.3.depot on HP-UX 11.0. I was doing this through swinstall. It successfull completed the analysis phase and then gave the following error:

get_sysfile:nlist64 to /stand/vmunix failed, errno=0
Error:The extraction of a system file from "/stand/vmunix" failed. Verify that "/stand/vmunix" is a properly built kernel file before trying again.


The return value from "get_sysfile" was:2
The get_sysfile command expects to find a system file embedded in the kernel file "/stand/vmunix/". It is possible that the kernel was stripped by the administrator which is an unsupported action. Corruption in the kernel file could also cause the failure. Use an already existing system file if this extraction failure cannot be corrected.

NOTE: The previous system file has been replaced to "/stand/system"
Error:The command /usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep, which is used to extract the system file from the kernel, has failed. Because Kernel filesets are selected fro installation, this command must be executed by "swinstall" without failures before installation can continue.

I then aborted it and rebooted the system. My system came up without any problem. After that I started SAM and was trying to check the Volume group information, then it gave the following error:

Internal error: The kernel discovery tool used by SAM failed. Kernel changes cannot be made by SAM. The standard error output of the command is shown below:

getkinfo: Unable to read the kernel file "/stand/vmunix"

Kindly help me in solving this problem.

Regards
Rajesh

[Stephen Keane]

What does

# /usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep -s /stand/system.dummy

give you ?

You can delete /stand/system.dummy afterwards, if it has been created.

[Eric Antunes]

Hi Rajesh,

See this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=217623

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes