swinstall error on hp/ux 10.1

[Kevin Shaw]

When trying to run the swinstall program on an old
HP apollo 9000/720 system running hp/ux 10.1 I get the
folloing error.

|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|bogota:/": The session information sent to this agent does not |
| identify a valid session. |
| Since the local target cannot be opened, the program must exit. |
|------------------------------------------------------------------|

Any ideas? This is a fresh reload of hp/ux 10.1.
Kevin Shaw
kshaw@genauto.com

[Frank Broeer]

Have you checked the /var/adm/sw/swagentd.log

It looks like a problem with your DNS or /etc/hosts

make sure that you have a valid hosname and IP address for your system.
Check if there is a doubled hostname or IP address
try
nslookup
nslookup
ping
ping

[Anthony Goonetilleke_1]

I once got a similar error and it turned out to be a simple hosts file problem.
This is the entry I had in my hosts file

128.111.1.1 machineA.domain.com

but it needed the following alias

128.111.1.1 machineA.domain.com machineA

and everything worked ....

[Kevin Shaw]

Frank, and forum members,

I did a nslookup and ping and both respond as expected.

I did view log, and see the following.

ERROR: You have asked the system to do a task, 4, that is not
supported on this version of SD-UX. To process this request
on this machine, you must first install the HP OpenView
Software Distributor application. 11/29/99 10:00:20 MST

I did a reload recently and did not see any special SD-UX install routine?

Kevin Shaw
kshaw@genauto.com