swinstall issue.

[Adam Noble]

Hi all,

I have a bit of an issue. We have a webserver running hpux11.11. It has numberous aliases and infact the hostname itself relates to an IP address which is an alias on lan0 but on an external subnet....all a bit strange. If I carry out a swinstall it simply hangs and I think it is trying to resolve the hostname to IP and having issues. I've never seen a setup like this before is there a way around it

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Have you restarted swagentd?

swagentd -r

[Robert Fritz]

I've seen this before. If SD can't resolve the local host name and access it using that IP. I took special note that you said that the host name translates to an external subnet IP (IE: non-reachable?) That could do it right there...

[Khashru · Accepted solution]

Do you have any mount point listed in /etc/fstab but not mounted? if yes then go to option->change option in swinstall and uncheck Mount filesystems in /etc/fstab or /etc/checklis

[Adam Noble]

Strangely enough this related to an NFS Mount specified in fstab that was no longer valid. COuld not contact this host and it actually came back after about 15 mins! Thanks for help anyway

[Dennis Handly]

>Strangely enough this related to an NFS Mount specified in fstab that was no longer valid.

This isn't "Strangely", it is probably expected. This is why Khashru asked if you had added: -x mount_all_filesystems=false
to your swinstall command line.

[Adam Noble]

Thanks Dennis you sound like fun. The problem was however that I managed to see the problem on the day I setup the forum. Therefore I was simply emphasising what he had said and if you notice my points allocation it kind of makes sense. Thats why you got a 1!!

[Dennis Handly]

>Thats why you got a 1!!

That's ok, Khashru did the hard work. :-)

I had this error happen to me once, it didn't hang but it gave an error after years of not having to add -x mount_all_filesystems=false.

It turned out one of my filesystems went bad. It turns out it was empty, didn't know I had that 35 Gb!