SWLIST/SWINSTALL HANGS

[Pedro José]

I´m installing HP-UX 11i v1 on a new server (rp2400 series).
When I finish the installation and try to install the support plus with swinstall, the command hangs and I must kill it from other telnet session.
When I try the swlist, it hangs too.
I found other people who get the same problem and their solution was:
1. Kill rpcd
2. export DMS_FORCEOFF=1
3. Start rpcd
4. restart swagentd
I´ve tried it, but it doesn´t work here...
Can anybody help??
Thanks in ad

[T G Manikandan]

Just check whether the nslookup is working fine.

#nslookup
#nslookup


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[T G Manikandan]

Also make sure that the option is enabled

All targets to resolve the source locally

[jason morgan_3]

TGM is totally correct. I had the same problem, it was my system name resolution that caused the hang up.

Maybe all you need to do is check

/etc/hosts

-Jason

[Pedro José]

I´ve tried the nslookup and have a see to the /etc/hosts file, but everything is correct.
I´ve just realized that swlist works, but almost 20 minutes after the command is launched...
I´ve realized that sam (for example) is very slow too.
??

[Ravi_8]

Hi

check the file systems sizes, particularly /tmp. increase the size if needed

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Pedro,

Just a shot in the dark, could you check if there is a file called .sdkey, if so remove it.

#ll var/adm/sw/.sdkey

Robert-Jan

[roy veldhuizen]

Pedro,

we are experiencing exactly the same problem. Did you finally solved yours? And if so, can you explain how?

Thanks,
Roy Veldhuizen

[Pedro José]

Hi Roy,
We finally got the conclusion that it was a dns problem.
We had assigned the machine an ip address, a domain name and a dns, but we hadn´t include the new ipaddress-name in the dns. When we included the pair in the dns, we installed the software without problems.
Hope this helps you!!
Byeee

[roy veldhuizen]

Mmmm,

dns seems to be OK at our site. What I don't understand anyway is dat for a simple swlist on the localhost a dns query is neccesary. I had a look at nsswitch.conf and his states that first the /etc/hosts file should be searched:

hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns

Moreover I noticed that when I do a swlist as root user the response is imediately as any other user the response is very slow.

Anyone any ideas?