swinstall

[Martijn Bos_1]

Hi all,

I try to install some sw-packages. swinstall returns following error when selecting the target:

"vwsapuwk:/": This target or source is already in use either within this same session or by another session. A read or write lock was denied.

I probably stopped (ctrl-c) the last installsession. I believe somewhere there is a "lock-file" which now keeps something locked.

My question is : Does somebody know whether the above is true, and which file the lock-file is,(so I can remove it)?

If you need any more information, don't hesitate to ask for more information.

Best Ragards
Martijn

[Steven E. Protter]

/sbin/init.d/swagentd -r

Restarting the daemon almost always fixes these kind of problems.

The swagent log will also have an erorr message with the exact location of the lock file.

Lastly:

ps -ef | grep swinstall

Make sure all those processes are really dead and not trying to finish on auto pilot.

SEP

[Pete Randall]

Martijn,

Try stopping and restarting the swagentd:

/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start



Pete

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The general cure for this is (as root):

0) Exit any swinstall sessions
1) cd /sbin/init.d
2) ./swagentd stop
./swagentd start

You should be good to go.

[Umapathy S · Accepted solution]

Martijn,
Restarting the swagentd will be the solution.

During the analysis phase swinstall tries to get a read lock. If not then the analysis phase fails.
check for /var/adm/sw/products/swlock.

HTH,
Umapathy

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

look for any process running related to swinstall, by ps -ef |grep sw

If no other swinstall /swremove is running then you will only see swagentd -r process.
If you see any othe process with sw then kill it and restart swagent agent the way it mentioned above post.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

And........ the swlock file should be in
var/adm/sw/products/swlock
/var/spool/sw/catalog/swlock

-USA..

[Martijn Bos_1]

Thanx to all of you.

I'm amazed by the speed you HP-guys react.
(I'm mainly working on AIX :-) )

tnx.
Martijn Bos

[Martijn Bos_1]

Removing the lock files did the trick.

thx