Installing MirrorDisk from App CD, swinstall said LVM missing?

[Thomas Lee_1]

I going to install MirroDisk/UX from disc 1 of 11.00 App CD March 03.

When I mark it to Install, the swinstall just said I have missing LVM.
But all of you know, LVM already included in the CoreMedia.

So, is that I have missed something? How to let swinstall know I have LVM while installing MirrorDisk/UX from App CD?

Both my CoreMedia and App CD is March 03.

[Michael Steele_2]

Go to /var/adm/sw/swagent.log, locate the errors and attach.

For MirrorDisk/UX select only B2491BA for HP-UX 11.00, mark for install and go.

Note: A codeword will be required with 11.00.

swlist -l bundle | grep -i -e B2491BA -e MirrorDisk/UX

Since it's Sunday refer to /var/adm/sw/.codewords file. Maybe you can glean something useful there.

[Patrick Wallek]

That is fairly normal actually. When you mark it for installation, it will say that the depedencies for MirrorDisk, which is LVM, could not be resolved. BUT if you go ahead and mark it for install, then do the installation analysis, it will most likely work just fine.

The real test when installing software is not when you mark it for install, but rather when it does the installation analysis just prior to actually running the install.

So go ahed and install it. I am almost 100% certain you will be fine.

Just remember that MirrorDisk will require a reboot since it does install additional Kernel stuff and rebuilds the kernel.

Good luck!

[Thomas Lee_1]

I do know the software need codeword.

And instead of warning when mark to install,
even I go ahead to install, the same warning occur and reject to install. How to soft?

[Zigor Buruaga]

Hi,

Maybe these links could help:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0x10615c7609e9d61190050090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1065413524380+28353475
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0x867b3f490f4ed61190020090279cd0f9%2C00.html

Looks like you need some patches before.
HTH.
Kind regards,
Zigor

[Thomas Lee_1]

BTW I have already using March 03 Release for both APP CD and CoreMedia, do I really need to apply patch?

Or do I need to do sth like swreg after a fresh install?

[Zigor Buruaga]

Hi,

No, sorry for the misunderstanding.
Could you please post the analysis error log?

Kind regards,
Zigor

[Thomas Lee_1]

Here attached the text from SWAGENT.LOG,
pls note I'm using local cdrom.

* Agent session started for user "root@hcuxws01". (pid=4395)

* Beginning Analysis Phase.
* Source: hcuxws01:/cdrom
* Target: hcuxws01:/
* Target logfile: hcuxws01:/var/adm/sw/swagent.log
* Reading source for product information.
* Reading source for file information.
ERROR: Could not access remote file "checkremove" in software item
"LVM.LVM-MIRROR-RUN,r=B.11.00,a=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=HP,fr=B.11.00,fa=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64:/".
The file could not be found on the remote system.
ERROR: The catalog files for product "LVM,r=B.11.00" failed to load.
Check the above output for details.
* Executing preDSA command.
NOTE: Could not install the bundle "B5403BA,r=B.11.00" because none
of its filesets could be installed.
NOTE: All filesets in the product "LVM,r=B.11.00" will be excluded
because there was an error in this product.

* Summary of Analysis Phase:
ERROR: Exclude LVM.LVM-MIRROR-RUN,r=B.11.00
ERROR: 1 of 1 filesets had Errors.
ERROR: The Analysis Phase had errors. See the above output for
details.

[Patrick Wallek]

It appears as though your installation media may be bad. The error is saying that swinstall can't find 'checkremove' script that should be part of the Mirror Disk installation.

If you have another Application CD set try it, or you might try downloading from the ITRC Software Update Manager.

[Michael Steele_2]

A) - Try 'unregistering' the product and then tyr to re-install.

# swreg -u B2491BA

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B) - Verify the O/S and report the errors from swverify.log:

# check_patches

-or-

# swverify -x=check_permissions=true \*

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C) Rebuild the INDEX file.

# cd /var/adm/sw/products
# mv INDEX INDEX.orig
# cd /tmp
# vi void.psf
product
tag void
fileset
tag void
:wq!
# swpackage -s /tmp/void.psf
# swinstall void
# swremove void
# rm void.psf
# swremove -d void

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Regarding 'checkremove' failure and from the URL listed below:

"...A checkremove script determines whether the product/fileset can be removed by performing checks beyond those performed by swremove. ...If the checkremove script fails, no filesets in the product will be removed...."

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90154/B2355-90154_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90154/00/00/56-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90154/00/00/56-toc.html&searchterms=checkremove&queryid=20031007-210734