How to cancel reboot after patch installation ( interactive swinstall )

[Burhan Halilov_1]

After a planned patch installation ( the patch required reboot ) we realized that it's not a good time to reboot. I'm sure many of you gurus have been in the same situation. Now I'm looking at the swinstall screen and I'm only one click away from reboot.

I experimented on another system and so far I have no solution :
Closing the telnet session reboots ( tested )
Renaming/moving /sbin/shutdown and /sbin/reboot commands also does not help, system reboots anyway ( tested )

[Alberto Ochoa]

Have you tried in your test system by killing the swagent? From the man pages: The
reboot command is defined by the swagent option: reboot_cmd."

[Alberto Ochoa]

Try only on a real test system purposes. If succeed, reboot the test system so you can see that everything is ok. Because of the kernel rebuilding I think the best option is to reboot the productive system in the state that it is now (waiting for you to clik for the reboor).

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi,

Copy the patch in any folder.
Say /abc
# cd /abc
# sh patch.shar
# swinstall -s /abc/patch.depot

Once the patch installation is completed it will ask you to press "ok" when ready to reboot.

Don't use the installation command which is given with the patch description.

Example
swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s /tmp/PHCO_23004.depot

Here it will automatically reboot w/o asking.

hth.

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,
Not the Solution to your problem but maybe a workaround.
Try Using swcopy first i suppose this will tell you that the system requires a reboot while installation.


Regards,

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

open another session to that m/c and kill swinstall process.

[Karthik S S]

Simply close the terminal window from where you invoked swinstall.

-KarthiK S S

[Albert Smith_1]

If I recall correctly if you are doing the swinstall interativley I think you can use the following option:

-x autoreboot=false

[Dietmar Konermann · Accepted solution]

Burhan,

of course this is neither supported nor is it reccomended. :) When you look at the running sw* processes you should see two swagent processes, one 'source agent' (1st arg is the depot path) and one 'target agent' (1st arg is usually '/'). Pick the PID of the target agent and kill it with -9.

Best regards...
Dietmar.

[Robert Binkhorst]

Yeah,

AFAIK, you'll need to keep that window open!

Good luck!

Robert