swinstall ends with an I/O Error

[Eric Tchepannou]

Hi to all.

I have the problem described in th subject. Anytime I apply swinstall on a .depot file it ends with an I/O error!!!
Can somebody help me?

Thanks

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Eric Tchepannou

[Trevor Dyson]

Are your .depot files in the right format(ie not compressed).

Try doing a 'tar tvf file.depot' where file.depot is the name of your tar file.

If you get an error then maybe the file is incomplete or compressed.

Where did you get the .depot files from?

[Eric Tchepannou]

Hi

tar on the .depot file does not work:
tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Only read 8995 bytes from archive PHSS_16429.depot
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

The depot file is actually a HP patch ( PHSS_1629 ) that I have downloaded from this hp site. After applying a sh on this file 2 new files have been created a .text and a .depot.
This problem has occured on all depot files I have downloaded up to now, so that I have always been obliged to get the source and compile them by myself.
Can I also get the source of a patch somewhere?

Thanks

[Trevor Dyson]

How did you download the patch. Did you ftp it directly on to the HP-UX system from the ITRC or some other method.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Eric:

Can you detail the error that is produced. You should find this in your swinstall.log file.

However, you are on the right path - after you sh the source, you should get a .text and a .depot file - you should be able to do an swinstal -s /tmp/patchname.depot and follow the prompts. Sometimes, the system will complain that the source is not a tape or the "tape" is write protected - you can safely ignore it.

good luck

[Suhas_2]

Eric,
It looks as if the patch has been downloaded from itrc.hp.com. You must have got an html file, from where you got the .depot file. During extraction, have you came across an error like "short file" ?....if it is so then pls download the patch again, because the file is incomplete.

Hope this helps....
Suhas.

[Darrel Louis]

Eric,

When downloading patches from the ITRC site I use Netscape.
If you can't do a tar tvf patch.depot, the file is corrupt.
Check with wc patch.depot for size etc.

Try downloading the patch with Netscape.

[Cheryl Griffin]

If this is 11.00, try the following:
# ll /var/adm/sw/.codewords

If it is not there, try:
# touch /var/adm/sw/.codewords