HP-UX installation errors

[Rajesh Karelia]

Hi,

I was installing HP-UX 11i V2 on rx1650 model with Intel Itanium processor. The installation was successful but in between there were 3 FAILUREs. Can anyone help why these errors occured and what is the impact on the system.

I have given the details below.

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When booting from DVD - there was an error in 'execve'
lines below as -
execve("/sbin/sh") failed, errno 0xffffffff
execve("/bin/sh") failed, errno 0xffffffff
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Loading.: Internal Bootable DVD
Starting: Internal Bootable DVD

(C) Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.All rights reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.027

Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
\EFI\BOOT\AUTO ==> boot :IINSTALL
Seconds left till autoboot - 0
AUTOBOOTING...> System Memory = 2036 MB
loading section 0


............................................................ (complete)
loading section 1
.............. (complete)
loading symbol table
loading ram disk file (:IINSTALLFS).
......................................................................................
(complete)
Launching :IINSTALL
SIZE: Text:30442K + Data:6886K + BSS:5417K = Total:42746K

Console is on a Serial Device
Booting kernel...

HP-UX will call firmware in physical-addressing mode

Memory Class Setup
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Class Physmem Lockmem Swapmem
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System : 2036 MB 2036 MB 2036 MB
Kernel : 2036 MB 2036 MB 2036 MB
User : 1651 MB 1437 MB 1442 MB
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Loaded ACPI revision 2.0 tables.
krs_read_mfs: Error 5 opening MFS.
WARNING: GIO: read_ioconfig_file(): /stand/ioconfig read error.
ioconfig = NULL
NOTICE: cachefs_link(): File system was registered at index 5.
NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 8.
iether0: INITIALIZING HP PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Built-in at hardware path 0/1/2/0
iether1: INITIALIZING HP PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Built-in at hardware path 0/1/2/1

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
Swap device table: (start & size given in 512-byte blocks)
entry 0 - auto-configured on root device; ignored - no room
WARNING: no swap device configured, so dump cannot be defaulted to primary swap.
WARNING: No dump devices are configured. Dump is disabled.
Starting the STREAMS daemons-phase 1
execve("/sbin/sh") failed, errno 0xffffffff
execve("/bin/sh") failed, errno 0xffffffff
Create STCP device files
$Revision: vmunix: B11.23_LR FLAVOR=perf Fri Aug 29 22:35:38 PDT 2003 $
Memory Information:
physical page size = 4096 bytes, logical page size = 4096 bytes
Physical: 2085688 Kbytes, lockable: 1235944 Kbytes, available: 1500264 Kbytes

======= 05/19/06 11:16:35 EDT HP-UX Installation Initialization. (Fri May 19
11:16:35 EDT 2006)
@(#) Ignite-UX Revision C.6.7.71
@(#) install/init (opt) $Revision: 10.412 $
version 5 layout



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Immediately after the above mesasges when system is booted from DVD, there is a menu
and I selected 'Install HP-UX' and then in the next screen,
selected 'Media Installation Only' and 'Advanced Installation'.
It brought me to another menu titled '/opt/ignite/bin/itool ()'.
I entered the required parameters in Basic, Software, System, File System and Advanced.
Then pressed 'Go' and it started with loads of messages.
Within this, there was a failure.... "vxregctl: queryvalue failed:"
a small sample of the screenshot is as given below.
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* Installing fileset "VRTSob.VEAS-FILESET,r=3.2.532.0.100" (1356
of 1715).
* Installing fileset "PHCO_33078.VEAS-FILESET,r=1.0" (1357 of
1715).
vxregctl: queryvalue failed: Open failed on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/VERITAS/VxSvc/CurrentVersion: Not found
* Installing fileset "VRTSobgui.VEA-FILESET,r=3.2.532.0.100"
(1358 of 1715).
* Installing fileset "PHCO_33079.VEA-FILESET,r=1.0" (1359 of
1715).



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After the installation, when the system booted from OS on hard drives,
there was again an error HP-UX Start-up for RPC daemon. shown below.
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Start SNMP Trap Dest Network Management subAgent .................... OK
Start DCE daemons ................................................... N/A
Start SNMP PCI FDDI Network Management subAgent ..................... OK
Start RPC daemon if needed .......................................... FAIL *
Start CIM cimserver subsystem ....................................... OK
Initialize Instant Capacity ......................................... N/A
Starting ISEE hpservices mad daemon. ................................ N/A
Start Runner ........................................................ N/A

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
have you checked the /etc/rc.log file.
What happens if you:
/opt/dce/sbin/rpcd
/opt/dce/sbin/rpcd -f

[Andrey Tumanov]

From the errors above, it seems to me that the system fails to mount the necessary filesystems, / , swap and /stand. Enter the single-user mode and check /etc/fstab for syntax errors (you'll have to mount /usr and /var to use vi).

[Rajesh Karelia]

The output of rpcd is nothig:

udsbld @ /:
udsbld @ /: /opt/dce/sbin/rpcd
udsbld @ /:
udsbld @ /: /opt/dce/sbin/rpcd -f
udsbld @ /:


The contents of /etc/fstab is:

udsbld @ /: more /etc/fstab
# System /etc/fstab file. Static information about the file systems
# See fstab(4) and sam(1M) for further details on configuring devices.
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / vxfs delaylog 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand vxfs tranflush 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /opt vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /tmp vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /var vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /home vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol8 /usr vxfs delaylog 0 2
udsbld @ /:


The contents of /etc/lvmtab is:

udsbld @ /:
udsbld @ /: strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
Dn4'
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2
udsbld @ /:

Please help what is wrong in installation.

[Andrey Tumanov]

The system boots and runs normally, right?
As far as I could find out you can ignore these messages, as they have to impact on the system.

[Andrey Tumanov]

Got an error there, read "to impact" as "no impact"...