Regarding patch installation...

[srinu_1]

Hi all,

Good morning.

I am planning to apply patches to one my hp server(C8000 Model).I downloaded the patches from the hp website in TAR format.During UNTAR it's giving following error.

bash-2.04# tar xvf hpux__11.11_08191107.tar
x patch_manifest, 111 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x README_hp-ux, 1831 bytes, 4 tape blocks
x create_depot_hp-ux_11, 5776 bytes, 12 tape blocks
x BUNDLE11i_B.11.11.0306.1.depot, 1402880 bytes, 2740 tape blocks
bash-2.04# tar xvf hpux__11.11_08191110.tar
x patch_manifest, 345 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x README_hp-ux, 1831 bytes, 4 tape blocks
x create_depot_hp-ux_11, 5776 bytes, 12 tape blocks
x HWEnable11i_B.11.11.0509.430.depot, 45967360 bytes, 89780 tape blocks
x BUNDLE11i_B.11.11.0306.1.depot, 1402880 bytes, 2740 tape blocks
x PHCO_34196, 2811267 bytes, 5491 tape blocks
x PHKL_34161, 1413078 bytes, 2760 tape blocks
x PHSS_32971, 18962293 bytes, 37036 tape blocks
bash-2.04# tar xvf hpux__11.11_08191112.tar
x patch_manifest, 781 bytes, 2 tape blocks
x README_hp-ux, 1831 bytes, 4 tape blocks
x create_depot_hp-ux_11, 5776 bytes, 12 tape blocks
x HWEnable11i_B.11.11.0509.430.depot, 45967360 bytes, 89780 tape blocks
x GOLDQPK11i_B.11.11.0606.446.depot, 513546240 bytes, 1003020 tape blocks
Tar: error! blocksize changed
bash-2.04#


Any idea?.

Thanks in advance....

Regards,
sri.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The most likely explanation is that that particular tar file is corrupt. Normally, I would say that you should make sure that binary transfer is specified at every step along the way but because you sucessfully un'tarred many files, this appears to simply be a corrupt download. Retry the download. I also see you are running bash as root; I would try running it under the POSIX shell though I doubt this is your problem.

[Prashanth.D.S]

Hi Srinu,

Check if you have sufficient space in /tmp to install patch..it can be one of the possible cause of this issue.

Best Regards,
Prashanth

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The error generated has nothing to do with disk space. It is, as Clay said, indicative of a bad download.

I prefer downloading the patch files as a gzip archive. This allows a somewhat smaller download. Then, once they are on the HP-UX machine you can do:

# gzcat .gz | tar -xvf -

to extract them from the archive.

[John_Hancock]

It may have been a truncated download due to a failure of insufficient space on the disk to which it was saved origonally. Just a thought.

[John_Hancock]

It may have been a truncated download due to a failure or insufficient space on the disk to which it was saved origonally. Just a thought.

[Sp4admin]

Hi,

I agree with Clay. This sounds like a corrupt download. Did you download from the HTTP site or did you downoad directly from ftp itrc.hp.com. Sometimes I would have to try two times before it downloaded correctly.

Sp,