Patch problem

[Fred Ruffet]

I'm having problems with internal disks. Solution found in the forum is to apply PHSS_35807 patch. I have downloaded it and sent to my servers. I did a "sh PHSS_35807" which gave me PHSS_35807.txt and PHSS_35807.depot.

But when I try to "swinstall -s $PWD/PHSS_35807.depot \*", swinstall complains about an invalid archive.

So I've tried to do it manually, with "tar -xf $PWD/PHSS_35807.depot" and "swreg -l depot $PWD/PHSS_35807". But swreg complains about a missing INDEX file. And fact is that INDEX file is missing.

Is there a known issue about incomplete patches ? I've seen several posts about my initial problem with SAS disks (Event 100776). Does anybody have the same problem ? Is there a way to build this INDEX file ?

Regards,

[Dennis Handly]

>So I've tried to do it manually, with "tar -xf $PWD/PHSS_35807.depot" and "swreg -l depot $PWD/PHSS_35807".

To create a directory depot, you should be using swcopy, not tar. Did tar -tvf PHSS_35807.depot show any file INDEX?

There are some "Special Installation Instructions" but nothing that says your swinstall won't work.

[Fred Ruffet]

yes it does contain INDEX files ! I didn't tried tar -tvf, because tar -xf didn't create any, without an error... So why didn't it creates them ?

I'm gonna try with swcopy, but I imagine that if swinstall doesn't like the archive, swcopy won't do.

[Fred Ruffet]

It was probably a too long time for me without applying a patch :)

Problem with tar is only that INDEX file are not in the patch directory, but in the catalog one. Anyway, I went for the swcopy solution and it worked fine.

I still doesn't understand why the initial swinstall command didn't worked...