HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2011 (Edition 9.2)

Table 15 Known install and update problems (continued)
Description/actionProblem
DRD updates directly from media will fail unless you install the September 2010
OE (or later) versions of DRD, SWM, and SW-DIST.
DRD updates directly from
September 2010 OE (or later)
What to do
media require the September 2010
OE (or later) versions of DRD,
SWM, and SW-DIST
In order to use a media depot to do a DRD update, you will need to first install
September 2010 (or later) versions of DRD, SWM, and SW-DIST products from
the media. This must be done before the clone is created, so the new DRD, SWM,
and SW-DIST are on the active system and on the clone.
To install these products execute a command like the following. (This assumes that
the first DVD of the September 2010 or later release is mounted to /SD_CDROM.)
swinstall -x autoselect_dependencies=false -s /SD_CDROM \
DRD SWM SW-DIST PHCO_36525
Now you can create the clone, then perform an OE update from media on the
clone.
DRD runcmd does not support the following nsswitch.conf entries on the clone
while managing software through drd runcmd. If the file contains them, the
runcmd will fail.
Certain nsswitch.conf entries
not supported by drd runcmd
passwd: compat
group: compat
hosts: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
You might see these errors during the execution of drd runcmd if your
nsswitch.conf file contains the “hosts: nis” entry:
ERROR: Could not contact host "myserver".
Make sure the hostname is correct and
an absolute pathname is specified
(beginning with "/").
You might see these errors during the execution of drd runcmd if your
nsswitch.conf file contains the “passwd compat” or “group: compat” entries:
ERROR: Permission is denied for the current
operation. There is no entry for user
id 0 in the user database.
Check /etc/passwd and/or the NIS user
database.
What to do
Since DRD does not need NIS to be running during swinstall, swremove or
update, you may move the nsswitch.conf file on the clone to a temporary
location. After you are done modifying the clone, you may move it back.
# drd mount
# bdf
# mv /var/opt/drd/mnts/sysimage_001/ \
etc/nsswitch.conf/ \
var/opt/drd/mnts/sysimage_001/etc/nsswitch.conf.orig
# drd runcmd
# mv /var/opt/drd/mnts/sysimage_001/ \
etc/nsswitch.conf.orig? \
var/opt/drd/mnts/sysimage_001/etc/nsswitch.conf
Alternatively, you may remove the “passwd” and “group” entries that contain
“compat” from the clone’s /var/opt/drd/mnts/sysimage_001/etc/
nsswitch.conf file and replace the “hosts” entry with:
hosts: dns [NOTFOUND=return] nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
During an update from an earlier HP-UX 11i v3 OE to the September 2009 HP-UX
11i v3 OE, one or more patches might be partially installed. You might see the
During update to the September
2009 11i v3 OE, patches might be
partially installed following warning after running swverify on the system updated with the
September 2009 OE:
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