Patch installation error for HPUX 11.0

[Kevin Williams]

I have received a couple of HP9000 system for doing ports of the our software product. I have installed HP/UX 11.0 and need to apply a few patches to the os. After following the instructions that come with the patch, I get the following screen info indication the patch application failed:

======= 05/31/01 16:01:40 EDT BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive)

* Session started for user "root@pokie.and.av.com".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "pokie.and.av.com:/".
* "pokie.and.av.com:/var/tmp/patch/PHCO_19182.depot": This
source is a tape device.
* "pokie.and.av.com:/var/tmp/patch/PHCO_19182.depot": Cannot
open the logfile on this target or source. Possibly the media
is read-only or there is a permission problem. Check the
daemon logfile and "/var/tmp/swagent.log" on this host for
more information.
NOTE: The patch match operation failed to find patches for target
software on "pokie.and.av.com" which passed the filter.
NOTE: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.

======= 05/31/01 16:01:42 EDT END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)


It seems to think the hard drive is a tape device.

Has anyone come across this anomaly?

Any ideas/help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

your command line syntax is incorrect.
Either use swinstall GUI.
#swinstall
and type the full patch location there
or
more the txt file that was extracted in the shar file and look for the exact syntax to use for your command line.

You need to add -x patch_match_target=true

Later,
Bill

[Patrick Wallek]

Take a look at this thread as well. This will tell you how to bundle all of your patches together into one patch depot, so that you can install them all at once and not have to reboot more than once if you have patches that require a reboot.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xc3a3ee3e323bd5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html