swinstall

[David Lewis_1]

I have just done a control 'c' out of a swinstall sessions and now when I attemp to use swinstall or swremove it is telling me that I have a read/write lock denied? Any ideas on how to remove this lock?
thx

[Steven E. Protter]

It takes some time for swinstall to shut down even after you control-c

If you are brave you can fuser -cu /var or ps your session and issue a kill on the process id.

That should clear up the locks.

SEP

[Tim Sanko]

You need to do is to rm the files

/var/adm/sw/products/swlock
/var/spool/sw/catalog/swlock
/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd if you have had trouble with the

if that doesn't fix it may be time to

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

[Michael Steele_2]

mwa stop (* stop measureware *)
swagentd -k (* stop *)
rm /var/adm/sw/products/swlock (* removed lock *)
swagentd -r (* restart *)

[Helen French]

You may need to consider looking at these two files:
/var/adm/sw/products/swlock
/var/spool/sw/catalog/swlock

The first file put a lock for the swinstall commands and the second one for swcopy. On the safer side, you may stop and start the swagent services and daemons. For more installation about these locks, read man pages - swinstall (1m)