How to remove lingering driver enteries

[pavanvr]

Hi ,

I uninstalled a product called EVFS from Hp-UX but still I see that the driver entries can be seen

# swlist EVFS
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "evfsi8"...
ERROR: Software "EVFS" was not found on host "evfsi8:/".
# lsdev | grep evfs
123 -1 evfs_evs unknown
124 -1 evfsadmin unknown
125 4 evfsevol unknown
125 4 evfsevol unknown

Now if i try to re-install the same version of EVFS then even though swinstall is passing , the drivers are not installed.

Is this a issue with the way it is coded....If yes can u suggest possible script/ code changes to solve this isssue.

Thanks!!

[Pete Randall]

Try rm'ing or mv'ing the original drivers before the re-install.


Pete

[Torsten.]

"I uninstalled a product called EVFS ..."

How? Did you use swremove?

[pavanvr]

yes, I used swremove ...

only lsdev shows me the entries of drivers and i cannot find a driver in the driver path ......so can't do a rm or mv ..

-Pavan

[Michael Steele_2]

check for your driver entries in /etc/system and /etc/system.old. Your drivers exist here in /etc/system. What you are working with are device files. So it may be that the installation is checking /etc/system, finding entries existing there, and assuming the device files are already created.

[pavanvr]

unfortunately /etc/system file is missing from the box.

:(

Looks like i am stuck big time with this issue.

-Pavan

[John C. Polhemus]

I'm also interested in the answer to this question. I removed some EMC software and their docs indicated that I needed to to a
kminstall -d EMCmpf . kminstall is not available on my hpux 11.23 system.

The device/drivers?? show up from
strings /etc/ioconfig and
strings /stand/ioconfig

[Matti_Kurkela]

If the EMC documentation indicates you should use kminstall, that documentation is intended for HP-UX 11.11 and should not be used with HP-UX 11.23.

In HP-UX 11.23, the kminstall command was replaced with the kcmodule command. It has a different syntax, so just changing the command name is not enough.

I'd guess the 11.23 style for "kminstall -d EMCmpf" would be:

kcmodule EMCmpf=uninstall

assuming that the name of the EMC module is still the same in 11.23.

MK

[John C. Polhemus]

MK,
Kcmodule -a does not list EMCmpf. The uninstall fails with a message stating that the module is not found.

These module/devices/driver (I'm not sure which, EMC docs call it a module, but lsdev lists it as a driver) show up in the lsdev list.

Additoinal background.
The software cause a system panic when an insf -e was performed after the install. The system was booted off of /stand/backup/vmunix. After the filesystems were fsckd. The system was rebooted normally and the sw was swremoved. At this point I'm just trying to get rid of all the lingering pieces.

Regards,