HP-UX Patch Loading

[Thomas M. Williams_1]

I have an HP C240 WS w/ UX 11.11 installed. I am attempting to load a pathch but "swinstall" is complaining that it cannot contact the host.
The message is:
ERROR: Could not contact host "grmanis". Make sure the hostname is correct and an absolute pathname is specified (beginning with "/").

Any help?

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Thomas,

Several things to do/check:

1) Bounce the swagent daemon
/usr/sbin/swagentd -r

2) Verify that you can resolve you hostname properly in both directions
nslookup hostname
nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (your IP address)

3) Make sure you are running as the root. All patches should be installed by the root.

HTH,
Jeff

[Dirk Wiedemann]

Hi,

try the following:
Move to the directory witch containes the patch and prompt swinstall -s 'pwd'.
Or run swinstall and select "Source depot type: local directory".

hope this helps
Dirk

[Martin Johnson · Accepted solution]

Check the /var/adm/sw/sw*.log files for additional information.

HTH
Marty