swagentd failed to start

[Francis Sung]

After I installed XSW700GR1020 B.10.20.55.3, the Dec 2001 General Release Patches for hpux 10.20, on rebooting, swagentd startup failed with the swagentd.log saying:

ERROR: Cannot allocate memory. Either there is no memory available or the memory managed by malloc has been corrupted. Cannot get host attributes. Internal data structures are inconsistent due to this error, and the daemon must terminate to avoid corrupting permanent (on disk) data structures.

Has anyone seen this failure? How can I fix this system? Thanks.

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

Seen this before on one of my 11.0, the fix is ..
# cd /var/adm/sw
# mv host_object host_object.corrupted
Now start swagentd.

[Helen French]

Hi Francis,

Some thing to try:

This problem may be caused by invalid entries in the file /var/adm/sw/host_object. During startup swagentd searches that file for depot locations. If You are not sure what entry may be responsible for the problem, simply move away the file. swagentd will create a new empty one automatically.

HTH,
Shiju

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Francis,

Take a look at PHCO_25640
Deals with malloc errors & was released 12/03/01.

Here's the link:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDisplayPatch/sid=587d49c10f6054f81e?PACH_NAM=PHCO_25640&HW=s800&OS=10.20

HTH,
Jeff

[Francis Sung]

Thanks for the quick responses. The removal of the host_object did the trick.