swinstall will not run...

[Edgar Arroyo]

I get an error when trying to run SWINSTALL...

It says I don't have access to root "/" even though I logged on as root... Any advice?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

First thing is to make sure your 'hostname' is resolvable and pingable.

#ping $(hostname)

Make sure it is successful.

Secondly, restart swagentd. Kill the process and then start it.

#kill
#swagentd -r

Then try.

-Sri

[Bharat Katkar]

HI,
#hostname

See the same name is specified in /etc/hosts file.
Incase you need to set up hostnae
# set_parms hostname

this will reboot the server.

Regards,

[Mel Burslan]

also if you have the file below :

exit out of swinstall session
rm /var/adm/sw/product/swlock

restart swinstall.

HTH

[Edgar Arroyo]

To all: I tried rebooting and nothing worked. I checked the hostname and it was the right one. I reinstalled HP-UX 11i and it started working fine. I am asuming the swlock could've had something to do with it. Thank you all.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

You could have replied back saying that none of the solutions worked so that you could have gotten more ideas.

It may simply be a corrupted security database under /var/adm/sw/security. You could have simply replaced with the new configuration from /usr/newconfig/var/adm/sw/security.

-Sri

[Edgar Arroyo]

Yes, but what's done is done, and I don't regret it, because 2nd time around I got 100% error free install and update.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Edgar,

I understand. I replied only for the future reference. In case someone with the same problem sees this thread in future, they should not think that re-installing the OS is the solution for this problem. For that matter you could simply reinstall the SD-UX part.

Anyway, I am glad your problem was fixed.

-Sri

PS: No more points please.

[Edgar Arroyo]

That is a *VERY* good point! Thank you.