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Re: HP-UX

From: Stuart Graham <sgraham_at_intertrain.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 04:30:12 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0037AD74.20010829041023@fatcity.com>

Ed, the real problem is it's not just this patch... there is a list of 10-15 patches which all give this error message. I am tempted to just go ahead and try the install anyway, how seriously could things go wrong :-)

> This is just a stab in the dark:
>
> I have never used a \ when installing patches so try running the command
on
> a single line
> like this:
>
> # swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s
> /tmp/PHCO_17058.depot
>
> If that doesn't work and since this seems to be a SAM patch, do you have
sam
> installed and working?
> Try running sam from the command line and see if the system administrator
> tool works.
> Otherwise I dunno. This might fail if a superseding patch was already
> installed.
>
> PHCO_17058 has been replaced by PHCO_23876 (Latest Superseding Patch) and
> PHCO_21187 (Best Available Patch). Try doing:
>
> swlist | grep PHCO
>
> to see if any of these later patches are already installed.
>
> You might want to install one of the later patches. I don't think anyone
> comes out with
> so many patch udates like HP-UX. Anytime you see documentation that says
you
> need to install a certain patch, that patch will have been supersceeded 2
or
> more times by the time you read the documentation so don't be worried
about
> trying to install one of the supersceeding patches.
>
>
> HTH
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 12:27 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hi all, this is slightly off topic, but I am trying to install 9i database
> on an HP-UX 11.00 box.
>
> I have v.v.v.v. little experience on HP-UX. This is only a test box, but
> going through ORACLE's install guide, it tells me I need to install
various
> HP-UX patches using swinstall.
>
> Many of the patches I try to install are erroring out...
>
> I run the command
>
> # swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true \
>
> > -s /tmp/PHCO_17058.depot
>
> and get the following output:
>
> ======= 08/28/01 16:14:35 BST BEGIN swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)
>
> * Session started for user "root_at_ham1".
>
> * Beginning Selection
>
> * Target connection succeeded for "ham1:/".
> NOTE: The patch match operation failed to find patches for target
> software on "ham1" which passed the filter.
> NOTE: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.
>
> ======= 08/28/01 16:14:50 BST END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)
>
>
> Does this mean I don't need these patches??
>
> TIA,
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
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