HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide, December 2005

Known Problems and Troubleshooting
Known Install and Update Problems
Appendix B154
Use the shutdown
Command Instead of
reboot Command
In rare cases, the reboot command may hang if a
catastrophic hardware or operating system problem happens
during shutdown.
In previous versions of HP-UX, a timeout and panic occurs if
the system does not completely shutdown after 10 minutes.
The system now waits indefinitely for the shutdown process
to complete.
What to Do
HP recommends you do not use the reboot command. Use the
shutdown command instead.
Cold-Install Error
Messages
After you cold-install the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 or
later release, you may see the following messages in the
swagent.log file:
lvlnboot: /etc/lvmtab: No such file or directory
lvlnboot: "/etc/lvmtab" could not be read into
memory.
You can safely ignore these messages.
HPUX-HIDS Causes
Automatic Reboot
Due to the restructuring of the HIDS product bundle in the
September 2004 release, installation or update from
HPUX-HIDS version 2.x or earlier to HPUX-HIDS version 3.x
will cause an automatic reboot of the system. A restructuring
of the product was implemented to address a behavior that
existed in past product releases of an orphaned file set
remaining on the system following an update. Please note
that updates from HPUX-HIDS version 3.0 to version 3.1 will
NOT require a system reboot.
Table B-1 Known Install and Update Problems (Continued)
Problem Description/Action