Re-installing HP-UX 10.20

[Andy Sevastian]

I have re-installed HP-UX 10.20 over the old version (same) using a boot DAT tape. After an error/warning free installation, the standard partitions: /, /stand, /var, /home, /tmp, /opt, /usr (all HFS) all appear but their size is not that which I have specified. Also all of the previous data and directories are still there, nothing has been overwritten, the only change is that there are the new partitions but, the install process does not keep the size I specify for them.

Also, after logging in to the CDE I get an error message: "Unable to initialize or connect to the Desktop messaging system. Check your $HOME/.dt/errorlog for more information. Press OK and your session will exit." The errorlog file contains the following info:

Fri Jan 19 13:48:27 2001
dtsession: The ToolTalk session server (ttsession) could not be started. This
indicates that either ToolTalk is not installed or that it is not
installed correctly on this machine. Please see your System
Administrator.

Fri Jan 19 13:48:43 2001
dtsession: Screen lock when the screen saver is turned on is not available on th
is server. Your screen will not be locked when the screen saver is turned on.

01/19/01 13:49:13 (/usr/dt/bin/dtexec) /usr/bin/sh

Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-
*-*-*-*" to type FontSet


01/19/01 13:49:13 (/usr/dt/bin/dtexec) /usr/bin/sh

Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-
Workspace Manager: I/O error on display:: 19.53.114.233:0.0

Do I have to manually format or remove the existing directories? I was under the assumption that re-installing HP-UX will remove any existing data on the drive. That is what the warning messages read through the install process anyway. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Andy

[Alex Glennie]

Not sure on the first part but as to CDE ... sounds like hostname resolution could be playing a part ... check out the other thread on this same message.

Try dr_dt for clues as well !

[Sergei Kazakov]

I have met same when I performed cold reinstallation. Check "/etc/rc.config.d/netconf" file (hostname, IP, gateway etc.), then check "/etc/hosts" and verify your data with DNS assignments (in my case I was put incorrect IP address that registered in DNS).
Sorry for my English.

Good Luck.
Sergei Kazakov.

P.S. Also check your loopback in "/etc/hosts".

[Matt Livingston]

It appears that you have created entirely new partitions and installed to those without overwriting the old, right?

Possibly the LIF on your boot disk still references the old root volume.

Did you make a new LIF, or restore the LIF from the old installation?

[Roman Dijanosic]

My suggestion is take a look at /etc/inetd.conf.
Do you have uncommented line like this:

rpc stream tcp swait root /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserver 100083 1 /usr/dt/bin/rpc.tt
dbserver
dtspc stream tcp nowait root /usr/dt/bin/dtspcd /usr/dt/bin/dtspcd
#cde rpc dgram udp wait root /usr/dt/bin/rpc.cmsd 100068 2-5 rpc.cmsd
# spc - Needs shared directory, run /usr/bms/bin/find_auth_dir for details.
spc stream tcp nowait root /usr/bms/bin/softspcd /usr/bms/bin/softspcd
rpc dgram udp wait root /usr/dt/bin/rpc.cmsd 100068 2-5 rpc.cmsd

Otherwise I can send you bunch of documents
about ToolTalk. I know that have excatly same problems on HP-UX and AIX
and after studying docs I found the answer. Don't
know exactly what I did...

Note: Docs are from AIX (My philosopy: grab anything what can help you no matter where it come
from even from the "worst" enemy). Don't know if
HP have some docs on ToolTalk.


Roman D.

[Andrew Penney]

I'm having the exact same problem.

I believe it is a hostname thing as well. When I try to bring up VUE, I recieve an error message as well indicating problems with the hostname in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf, /etc/hosts, and /var/adm/inetd.sec.

I'm going to check the DNS next, but if you find a fix, could you please notify me? Thanks

[Andy Sevastian]

Andrew,

The email posted by Sergei fixed the CDE error I was receiving. The problem was that I had changed the host name during the install but the name was not changed on the DNS, this problem was simply corrected by manually editing the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file (hostname, IP, gateway etc.) and /etc/hosts.

[Andrew Penney]

Hi,

Thanks a bunch guys. I got it working.
For some reason, the install never put the default nsswitch.conf in /etc. So once I told it where to look, everything worked great.