SAM not found after cold install of HP UX 11

[Ira Schmidt]

I cold installed HP UX 11 from the Core OS Install/Update/Recovery CD. When I try to run SAM, I get the message that sam was not found. I have installed with the minimum configuration under the advanced configuration as we do not use the CDE environment on this server. I have also installed SC cumulative patch PHCO_18183 and added 11.0 ACE 9911 with swinstall. How do I add SAM at this point of have I done something wrong in the install process.

[Cheryl Griffin]

Check if SAM is indeed installed:
# swlist -l fileset -a state|grep SystemAdmin

You should see
SystemAdmin.OBAM-HELP
SystemAdmin.OBAM-RUN
SystemAdmin.SAM
SystemAdmin.SAM-ENG-A-MAN
SystemAdmin.SAM-HELP

All in a configured state.

Reinstall SAM fileset "SystemAdmin" from the CORE-OS cd with the overwrite option within swinstall.

[Ira Schmidt]

When I run swlist, I get the following:

[hsuxdev]root:/ # swlist -l fileset -a state|grep SystemAdmin
# SystemAdmin
SystemAdmin.FIRST-BOOT configured
SystemAdmin.OBAM-RUN configured

It looks like I have installed minimal SystemAdmin support. I am new to UX and haven't figured out the correct syntax of the swlist command to reinstall SAM fileset "SystemAdmin". Any help with the syntax would be appreciated.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Ira:

Reinstalling just the SAM sub-system should not require a reboot. If you don't de-select the option to autoselect dependencies, then swinstall will attempt to install other parts of the operating system as dependencies and cause a reboot. Hence:

# swinstall -s /cdrom -l fileset SystemAdmin
-x reinstall=true reinstall_files=true
autoselect_dependencies=false

...JRF...

[Doug Morris]

I am having this EXACT problem and have tried to reinstall the SystemAdmin fileset. I mounted the HP-UX 11.00 Install and Core OS cd and ran, "swinstall -s /cdrom -l fileset SystemAdmin -x reinstall=true reinstall_files=tru
e autoselect_dependencies=false". swinstall writes the following to the log:

ERROR: Failed to start source agent in "/cdrom" for root@heavenly.osm.com. There is no installed software at "/cdrom". 09/21/01 11:48:13 MDT

Am I using the wrong disc? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[John Payne_2]

Doug,

Is your cdrom drive mounted before you try this?

John