No compatible software error when swinstalling

[Jeremy Loukinas]

I was trying to use an app cd from Mar2003 to do an swinstall. I am getting an error that there are no compatible products found.

Any advice?

[Dario_1]

Hi!

Please check if the CD is for the OS version you are running.

Regards,

Dario

[Steven E. Protter]

1) post the swinstall command you used.
2) You may have everything installed.
3) It may be an 11i cd and you are running 11.00 or vice sersa

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x reinstall=false -s /full_path_of_depot \*

In this case /cdrom/depotname

SEP

[Pete Randall]

Jeremy,

Is the App CD for the same release as your server? Can you be more specific? Do you get to see the list of software to choose from and then you get the error after you've chosen an app? Do you not even see the list?


Pete

[Jeremy Loukinas]

11.00 OS and 11.00 cd's.

The cd's I am using are the application cd's.

[Jeremy Loukinas]

I am not sure what release the oS was. It came pre-loaded from a vendor.

I am trying to use a Mar 2003 App cd for 11.00 though.

It will not show any software what so ever.

jeremy

[Pete Randall]

Jeremy,

Use a swlist command or a uname -a command to determine the version of the OS on your system. It sounds to me like you've got a 11i system.


Pete

[Jeremy Loukinas]

# uname -a
-t testone B.11.00 U 9000/800 1502700518 unlimited-user license
#

[Jeremy Loukinas]

# swlist
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "hp64"...
#
# Target: hp64:/
#

#
# Bundle(s):
#

HPUXEng64RT B.11.00.01 English HP-UX 64-bit Runtime Environment
HWE1100 B.11.00.0303.4 Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11.00, March 2003
UXCoreMedia B.11.00.02 HP-UX Media Kit (Reference Only. See Description)
UnlimUserLic B.11.00.02 HP-UX Unlimited-User License
XSWGR1100 B.11.00.47.08 General Release Patches, November 1999 (ACE)
#

[Dario_1]

Try reading the CD in a Windows machine and see if you can see something. I have the feeling you have a bad CD.

Regards,

Dario

[Steven E. Protter]

I now give a Pete Randall answer.

/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

try again.

SEP

[Pete Randall]

Jeremy,

Well, it's definitely an 11.0 system. Back to my earlier questions:

Do you get to see the list of software to choose from and then you get the error after you've chosen an app? Do you not even see the list?


Pete

[Dario_1]

Jeremy:

Are you getting any errors when mounting the CD?

Regards,

Dario

[doug mielke]

I've had to manually type the full path name for each product off of those update CDs.

[Jeremy Loukinas]

No errors mounting the cd. I can ls the /SD_CDROM directory. But when I run

swinstall -s /SD_CDROM

It tells me there are products that requires keys yada yada.. then it immediatly says

Currently, there are no products on this source which are compatible with the target. Therefore, no products are shown.

But no I cannot see any products.

[Jeremy Loukinas]

Tried restarting swagent.. no dice.

I have also tried a few cd's from different years.

Jeremy

[Pete Randall]

Jeremy,

Do you have any other CDs you could try?


Pete

[Jeremy Loukinas]

Pete,
I tried a couple different ones from different years. No change.

Is there anything equiv to Sun's /etc/release for HPUX? It pretty much tells you what release number of the OS you have ie 02/03.