PATCh Installation

[oscar munoz_1]

I am in the process of installing a patch and it is not doing anything and 20 minutes have gon by. I can only tab to the help or logfile button. % of installation is 0.
Can I abort the process? How? And if I do, can I start again or is there a major problem?

[Patrick Wallek]

What does the logfile say if you bring it up? What patch, patches or patch bundle are you trying to install? What version of HP-UX?

If you log onto the machine from another session does top or glance show swinstall or swagent doing anything?

[oscar munoz_1]

Top says swinstall is in a sleep state.
The CPU is 0.5% Its not hardly doing anything.

I have HPUX 10.20 and the patch is PHCO_24153.
r=B.10.00.00.AA

This is what the log file says. Its in the installation phase and is stuck there.

* Summary of Analysis Phase: .
. . * 1 of 1 filesets had no Errors or Warnings. .
. . * The Analysis Phase succeeded.
. . * Beginning the Install Execution Phase. .
. . * Filesets: 1 .
. . * Files: 3 .
. . * Kbytes: 177

[Jeroen Peereboom · Accepted solution]

Well, do you have a choice?
Kill it.
Maybe it's better to install this core patch while in single user mode. Be sure to mount all (local) filesystems first (mount -a).

If not possible, I remember measureware agents may cause problems like this. So stop / kill the mwa agent first.

JP.

[Hai Nguyen_1]

It may have completed. Can you click on "Done" to exit it?

Open another telnet session and run the following command:

# swlist -v PHCO_24153 | grep state

If the output is "state configured" (there may be more than one line.) then the patch has been installed successfully.

Hai

[oscar munoz_1]

I'm grepping for measure agent and nothing shows. It looks like its not running. we have glance installed but we herldy use it.

[isaac_loven]

When doing swinstall and swremove,
ALWAYS TURN OFF MWA:
mwa stop
I have also had the experience of MWA ( Measureware ) Stuffing up swinstalls.
After do
mwa start
Good luck.
Isaac