Problem kicking off swinstall from console.

[Nick Zraika]

I'm on a HP 700/92 console attached to a HP D270. This server is currently "standalone" not connected to a Network.

I'm trying to launch swinstall &
get the following error:

swinstall Couldn't bring up the initial window. This may occur when you specify an incorrect display.
ERROR: The interactive UI failed to start. If you wish to run non ineractively, you must specify some software as part of the swinstall command.

Now, i don't want any replies on "manual - command line ways" of getting the software to install (i know about that) just want to find out why the swinstall menu doesn't work.

Looked at previous posts and setting the TERM to vt100 did the trick for most, not the case here...

I have already done the following:

- unset DISPLAY
- stopped then started swagentd
- read the sw logs under /var/adm/sw, only useful message was in swagentd.log

WARNING: Failure registering as Remote Procedure Call server using protocol sequence "ncacn_ip_tcp" with endpoint "2121". No addresses (dce / rpc)

Any ideas/suggestions welcome!

[Steven E. Protter]

Things to check.

Is /etc/nsswitch.conf set.

11i v1 early versions shipped without a default and if its not set swagentd won't run.

ps -ef | grep swagentd

Is swagentd running. If that daemon is down you can't install software.

/sbin/swagentd -r

or

/sbin/swagentd stop
/sbin/swagentd start

Make sure there is enough room in /var to install something, if this involves patches.

Try TERM=hp

It appears this box has a lot of network setup for one that is not on a network. This may be interfering with normal operations.

SEP

[Nick Zraika]

There is no nsswitch.conf file present under /etc ??? is this required for swinstall ?

Its running HP-UX 10.20 (sorry should have pointed this out earlier)

Tried the following to no avail:

/sbin/swagentd -r

or

/sbin/swagentd stop
/sbin/swagentd start

Make sure there is enough room in /var to install something, if this involves patches.

Try TERM=hp

[Artyom Voronchihin]

It seems to be a name resolution problem. Does /etc/hosts file exist and contains record for localhost?

[MarkSyder]

Sorry if this is insulting, but did you export the TERM after you'd set it?

Also, try vt220 or dtterm.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Nick Zraika]

Sounds like a names resolution problem to me too....

yes, the /etc/hosts file exists.
yes, there is an entry for local host:

127.0.0.1 localhost

Nothing else in the file (not attached to any network as per my 1st post)

Yes i did export the TERM :)
tried vt220, no luck either..

hmmmmmm

[Ranjith_5]

Hi Nick,

Are you able to use sam in GUI? Or only problem with swinstall?

what is the output of
#ping $(hostname)

you are getting reply?

Is the hostname set properly in /etc/hosts?
I mean apart from localhost try adding the hostname in /etc/hosts.

Regards,
Syam

[Nick Zraika]

Hi Syam,

1) SAM works fine, its just swinstall.
2) ping $(hostname) was successful
3) After adding the hostname (earth) to the /etc/hosts file with a "dummy IP address" as its not on a network, i.e so that the hosts file looked like:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.172.54.107 earth

the ping $(hostname) no longer worked. I got:

PING earth: 64 byte packets
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote earth 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote earth 64 chars, ret=-1
etc etc

[Nick Zraika]

When i do a ps -ef |grep swagentd
all i get is:

root 1786 1 0 11:00:04 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/swagentd
root 1788 1308 0 11:00:08 console 0:00 grep swagentd

So i decided to do a:

/usr/sbin/swagentd -r

and the ps -ef |grep swagentd now shows:

the swagentd -r process

still no luck with swinstall..

tried:

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

no luck.

[Nick Zraika]

HOLD THE PHONE!!

GUYS!! IT WAS A VERY STUPID MISTAKE!!

Suprised no-one picked up on it too! in my 1st post i mentioned "exactly" what i was doing..

DDDDDDDDRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i was typing a & after the swinstall command!!!

Now that deserves a slap! :)

Thanks all for your help ...

[Ranjith_5]

Hi Nick,

Yor sentence "I m trying to launch swinstall & get the following error" was read by me as "Im trying to launch swinstall and get the following error"

So couldnot find any mistake in that....!!

Anyways hope now your problem is solved.

regards,
Syam

[Ranjith_5]

Hi Nick,

I dont find any mistake in using

#swinstall &

because this also will give you the GUI. I am able to use this and I have been using this way only since I may need the shell prompt for some other work during the installation. I used to use #swinstall & only .

I am running this from my windows PC with Exceed.

Regards,
Syam

[Nick Zraika]

Please see my previous posts. I'm on the console... running the swinstall with the & symbol won't work! there is no GUI.

Anyways' thanks all ...

problem fixed.

Nick