swlist dumps core

[SIJU JOSE]

Hi All

I was installing some software from a remote machine,in between the connection was lost and then onwards I am not able to do anything like swlist or swinstall.Even sam is not working.Any help will be highly appreciated.

TIA
Siju Jose

[Steven E. Protter]

/sbin/init.d/swagentd -r

or

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

Then try again. swagent does not care for or need sam running.

swlist -i lets you go through things interactively.

If sam is also not working a quick fix might be to boot the remote box.

Prior to that, look for errors in dmesg output or /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

who -r

See what run level the machine is actually at.

SEP

[SIJU JOSE]

Thanks Steven

But that doesnt help,I have bounced swagentd and even tried rebooting but still it gives the same error.sam gives nme the following
#sam
/usr/sbin/sam[220]: 4116 Bus error
Run level is 3.Any sw* command is giving the same error.

TIA
SIju Jose

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi Siju,
What exactly you were installing from the remote Machine!! That could be the Answer.
Any Security Patch or Tools ?
Did that modified your inetd.conf file?

Just a thought!!

Regards,

[SIJU JOSE]

I was trying to install DCE and encina stuff.It has not done anything with inetd.conf.

[Manish Srivastava]

Hi,

If you are able to do swverify then that may suggest what is the actual problem.

manish

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi Siju,
Some checkPoints Again:

1. Check your Hostname
# hostname
Same is configured in /etc/hosts
2. Check your NIC config.
# ifconfig lan0 (or whatever you use)
3. Check name resolution
# telnet loopback
# telnet hostname
Should give you the login prompt.

Hope that helps.
Regards,

[Muthukumar_5]

Hai,

If you have network problem means, the problem messages will be stored in syslog file.

Then log informations of sw* commands will be in /var/adm/sw/* location. check the sw*log on remote machines too.

By the way which machine's sw* commands are not working. Can you able to do in local or remote machine.

Check the initial trouble shooting of ping check,nslookup and ioscan if network failed.

Regards,
Muthukumar.

[ranganath ramachandra]

i think swlist uses libdce etc. but anyway as long as the swinstall is not complete i would guess it would not have changed the binaries on the system ? i dont know the answer but others may have some ideas based on this ...