Latest patches installation.

[Venky_1]

Hi ,

On our HP server we have HP-UX 11.00 installed using June 2001 media kit. Now we want to have the latest patches available in March 2002 media kit. i.e. HP-UX 11.00 Support Tools bundle, March 2002 and Quality Pack for HP-UX 11.00, March 2002.

Please suggest the best method to install the above on the existing O/S.

Best Regards,
Venky.

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hello Venky,

Mount the CD on your system then run swinstall.
Select the depot then "Action" --> "Manage Patch Selection"
Then select "Automatically select patches for existing software on target"
Then "ok"
The system will select the patches, then run the install.

Fr??d??ric

[Robert Thorneycroft]

Mount up the Support Plus CD media:
mount /dev/dsk/cxtydz /cdrom
Start swinstall for cdrom quality pack:
swinstall -s /cdrom/QPK1100
Then install as usual and reboot.

To install Support Tools:
swinstall -s /cdrom/DIAGNOSTICS/B.11.00

Sorry cannot help with the media kit as it is not something I use.

[eran maor]

Hi

wanted to add that the bundles of the patches was change .

before dec2001 the reguler bundles that were install was the HW-citical and General realse .

the the ciritical bundle of install is the QPK
that have all the critical patches and there is the HWE that have patches for new hardware and software replace.

the easy way to install it to mount the cdrom
and to do

swinstall -s /cdrom/QPK1100
swinstall -s /cdrom/DIAGNOSTICS/B.11.00
install the stm from the diag.

[Venky_1]

Hi ,

Managed to install latest QPK1100 and HWE bundles of Sept' 2002 on HP-UX 11.00.
But failed to install any of the PHKL_XXXX and PHNE_XXXX patches in the QPK1100 bundle.

So, all the PHCO_XXXX and PHSS_XXXX patches were installed successfully.

Why it failed to install kernel/ network related patches ?

Is there any other way to install the latest kernel patches as well ?

Regards,
Venky

[Armin Feller]

Hi Venky,

what kind of error occur during installation?

Please check patches on system:

# swlist -l fileset -a state -x show_superseded_patches=false | grep -i PHNE

and
# swlist -l fileset -a state -x show_superseded_patches=false | grep -i PHKL

Perhaps all this patches are already installed (configured) on the system.

Regards,
Armin

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

QPK1100 will be having all latests patches.

does your system reboot itself after installing the QPK1100. if yes then PHKL and PHNE patches are installed, PHCO and PHSS doesn't reboot the machine.

[Venky_1]

Hi Armin/Ravi,

Initially, I selected the entire QPK1100 bundle for installation but after the auto reboot server didn't come up as kernel got screwed.

So, booted again with the previous kernel and this time I explicitly selected all the PHC0_XXXX and PHSS_XXXX patches as I know that these patches won't screw the kernel. So ,server reboot was normal.

I already checked most of the existing kernel patches and they are quite old as the OS was initially installed using June' 2001 media.

I can see the patches included in the bundle using :-
#swlist -l product

Regards,
Venky

[Armin Feller]

Hi Venky,

what does the errormessages in /var/adm/sw/swagent.log say?

what does the swlist (see above) on the system say?

without having this infos, I don't know what to do to fix your problem.

Regards,
Armin

[Venky_1]

Hi Armin,

I have run the commands given by you and the output for both PHKL and PHNE , shows as configured for all the patches.

I didn't see any other status other then configured.

Regards,
Venky