Trying to create a 10.20 recovery archive

[Pat Allen_1]

Hi all - I'm relatively new to Ignite and have installed it on a J6000 system running 11.11. I've used it to create a golden 11.11 system for a C160 and a 11.11 network recovery archive for the C160 without any problem. I can install the golden image or the recovery archive just fine.

Now I need to do some testing with 10.20. Unfortunately, I need to use the same C160 as I used for the 11.11 testing. I loaded the 10.20 depot into ignite and installed the software onto the C160. All that went well. I then loaded the latest quality pack that I had onto the C160 and created a network recovery archive. The creation went OK with no problems reported. The problem started when I tried to install the recovery archive onto the C160. The software load completed and the client started to reboot. But the boot failed with the error message: ERROR: "/tmp/ign_configure/config_full" line 153: syntax error.

I've attached the config.full file to this message but line 153 is: hw_instance_num = 8/0 "ba" "GSCtoPCI" 0

Can anybody help me with this? I really need to be able to get network recovery working with 10.20 systems.

[David Bell_1]

Pat,

The hw_instance_num = 8/0 "ba" "GSCtoPCI" 0 is a reference to hardware path 8/0 "Bus Adapter" from GSC type to PCI type number 0. I'm not sure if the GSCtoPCI is used in HP-UX 10.20. This may be something that is used in HP-UX 11.00 and above. Aagain, I'm not sure. I would try removed the GSCtoPCI and see if it completes normally.

HTH,

Dave

[Ray Brewer]

We have run into a similar situation. Try replacing the "=" with "+=" to make it look like the statements after it. HP told us in the past not to use just "=" or everything after it will be ignored and that it is not proper sysntax. Hope this helps.

Ray

[Pat Allen_1]

These were both great suggestions but neither one seemed to do the trick. I get syntax errors no matter what changes I make to the file. ?????

[Ray Brewer]

We took a copy of your file and did a syntax check on it using the instl_adm command and it seems to be ok. When you installed Ignite on your 11.11 system which release did you install?

[Ray Brewer]

One other thing I just noticed, your error message says - ERROR: "/tmp/ign_configure/config_full" line 153: syntax error. (note the file name "config_full")
however you attached the file "config.full" (dot instead of underscore). Was this just a typo or are we looking at a different file? Just want to make sure.

Ray

[Pat Allen_1]

Hi Ray - Good eye on the file name but it turned out to be a typo on my part. The file name in the error message really was config.full.

Here's the configuration that I'm working with. My ignite server is running 11.11 with the June 2002 quality pack applied to it. The version of ignite is B.3.6.82. I've also loaded the Ignite-UX-10-20 and Ignite-UX-11-11 filesets onto the server. The version on the core CD is B.3.4.115 but I'm assuming that these were also updated to B.3.6.82 when I installed the quality pack onto the system.

I've just finished reinstalling 10.20 onto my test workstation from the ignite server. This did not include any version of ignite. I am now installing the June 2001 quality pack. Do I need to install anything else onto the 10.20 system before trying to make a network recovery archive from the ignite server?

The last question that I have is this... Is there any possability that the problem I am having is due to the fact that this client had previously been installed as a 11.11 client using ignite? Is Ignite being too smart for its own good? Should I delete all the client information and start from scratch?

Thanks for all the help!

[Ray Brewer]

Pat,

If you haven't already solved this yes remove the client from Ignite before trying to install it as a 10.20 system. Then from the ignite server go through the normal steps of adding the system as a network recovery client. Let me know what you find.

Ray

[Pat Allen_1]

Deleting the client from ignite before creating the network recovery archive didn't work. You mentioned in an earlier note that you ran config.full through instl_adm. The man page for this says that it's run on the server. Do you know which program actually is trying to parse the config.full on the client system? I want to try to run it manually to see if it gives me any more information. Hopefully there may even be a debug flag. Thanks again!

[Ray Brewer · Accepted solution]

Pat,
We ran the "instl_adm" on our Ignite server using the contents that you provided in your attachment. From what we have found the file config.full gets created after almost everything is done then, in this case, gets copied from the client to the Ignite server to "/var/opt/ignite/clients/". We found an obscure document that referenced a similar problem someone else had with Ignite and 10.20. Look to see if the file "/configure3" exists on the 10.20 machine. If so delete it, remove the client from Ignite and start over. This file is a temporary file that Ignite puts on the client durring the archive creation process. Ignite is supposed to clean it up when it is done. If it winds up in the archive it will cause problems durring a restore.

Ray