swinstall error

[KPS]

Hi,

I have just created a registered depot without any issues. All was successful, but when I go to run a swinstall on it, I get the following message:

"Cannot establish a lock on this target because of an external error. (For exapmle the lock file could not be created)

Would anyone have any idea why I'm getting this error?

Thanks,
KPS

[Jason Ray]

I have had problems installing things before and restarting the "swagentd" daemon resolved the issue.

[KPS]

Just attempted to stop/restart the swagentd daemon and I'm still getting the same message.

[Alex Glennie]

look for a /var/adm/sw/products/swlock file and remove it if you are sure no one else is using sdux .... see http://wwwpdp.web.cern.ch/wwwpdp/ose/file/hpux10/UNX1000344.html

[KPS]

I have removed the swlock and re-attempted and this still is not working. What I also tried was to see if I could point my swinstall at another registered depot and that seems to be working okay. This seems to be a specific issue with the depot that I'm trying to install from, rather than others that are working.

Could it be some sort of permssions issue?

Thanks,
KPS

[Alex Glennie]

I'd say there's a reasonable chance ...given other depots are working ....

Are you su'd to root ?

Do we see further clues in the syslog.log or the sdux logs -> /var/adm/sw/*.log ?

[KPS]

Here's what the swagentd.log is showing us:

ERROR: Cannot lock depot/root at "/veritas/emcpatches" because the
lock file "/veritas/emcpatches/catalog/swlock" is not there
and cannot be created. This lock file should always exist.
The lock file is probably missing due to manual changes to the
depot/root, or due to a problem with one of the tools that
created or modified the depot/root.
ERROR: The target "/veritas/emcpatches" could not be opened.

[Alex Glennie]

OK so did you use swpackage or make_bundles to create your patch bundle ? what were the commands you ran .....

[KPS]

These were tar files from EMC and I extracted them. I then ran swreg -l depot on the directory in which they reside.

[Alex Glennie]

Did they come with documentation either tarred or untarred ?

fyi a patch is a tar file

so I might be tempted to get the original tar files and look at http://www.unixadm.net/howto/create_depot.html

that said I'd prefer to know what format EMC patches take .... anyone else know ... can these be used with sdux ?

[Ronaldinho · Accepted solution]

Hi KPS,
Did you try creating the lock file to see why the swagent isn't creating it?

touch /veritas/emcpatches/catalog/swlock


Regards,
Ron

[KPS]

doing a touch of swlock did the trick in /veritas/emcpatches/catalog.


Thanks everyone,
-KPS

[KPS]

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