swinstall causes memory fault (coredump)

[George Broadrick]

I'm trying to do an swinstall on a server running HP-UX 11i and when we run that command the GUI comes up for a second and then disappears and we get 'memory fault (coredump)'. Does anyone know of a fix or workaround for this?

Thanks in advance!

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

/sbin/init.d/swagentd -r

That restarts swagent.

In case its the gui, try it form the command line without the DISPLAY variable set.

SEP

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

Check the latest patch available for SD. Also, do a # file and what process caused the core dump.

-Arun

[George Broadrick]

I looked at the SD patch and there is a later patch that I need to put on, the problem is that I can't since I am getting the memory fault error. I can't install the patch to fix the problem because the problem is keeping me from installing the patch.

[uk2999]

Have you tried running swinstall w/ -s ?

[George Broadrick]

Yes, I tried
'swinstall -s //.depot' and it still won't work. I think I need to copy it to a depot, but swcopy gives me the same memory fault errors.

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

Have you tried command line mode without GUI?
# swinstall -s

-Arun

P.S Remember to assign points

[George Broadrick]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not sure what you're meaning. I copied the .depot file to a directory (/hysas_5041) because that is the only directory that had enough room. When I tried to install it using 'swinstall -s /hysas_5041/.depot' it starts the GUI and then it fails and gives me the memory fault (core) error message. I can't swcopy the .depot file to our actual depot (/var/spool/sw) because I get the same error. When I try to swinstall without using the GUI it tells me that there is no software in my depot (var/spool/sw) but that's because I can't copy it there.

Ps- I will definitely assign points, I just need to know what fixes this first. Thanks for all the help!!!

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom again George,

swinstall -s /hysas_5041/.depot \*

You need the shlash star to tell it to install all parts of the depot from the command line.

Its important that you restart swagentd as I recommend earlier and that the UNIX95 variable not be set. This variable can cause checksum errors with swinstall.

SEP

[George Broadrick]

SEP-
Thanks. Do I need to start swagentd before or after I run that command? And how do I check to see if UNIX95 variable is set?

Sorry for all the questions!

[Muthukumar_5]

To restart swagend then,

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

To view UNIX95 variable setting then,

# echo $UNIX95

it must be null.

# UNIX95=""
# echo $UNIX95

that is it.

--
Muthu

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

Do I need to start swagentd before or after I run that command? And how do I check to see if UNIX95 variable is set?

You need to restart swagentd before running the command.

# echo $UNIX95

It should be null. (sh: UNIX95: Parameter not set.)

-Arun