RE: HP-UX

Okay, I just installed patch PHCO_21187 on a test workstation. It went in okay but when I tried to "swinstall" it a second time I got the "patch match operation failed to find patches for target" message , apparently because the patch is already installed.

I'm guessing that the patches or superceeded versions of the patches are already installed on the machine.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Stuart,

I'm not an expert in these matters, but I've just installed hp-ux 64-bit using the June release, and including the three large-scale quality patches.

During installation I noted that swinstall was giving me message like:

    298 files skipped out of 673

I think this meant it was simply not installing patches which were not relevant to my particular environment, and I suspect that your messages mean the same.

I prefer with swinstall to invoke the product for manual control, rather than using the command line. i.e.

    swinstall
then fill in the screen which specifies the depot (the PHCO_17058.depot file in a local directory, then choose the install action).

After the analyze stage you get messages about errors and warnings and files skipped - this may be more helpful (or perhaps comforting) than the summary message you are getting at the end.

Jonathan Lewis
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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 29 August 2001 13:07

|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 :-)
|
|
|----- Original Message -----
|To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
|Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:10 PM
|
|
|> 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 PHCO_17058 has been replaced by PHCO_23876 (Latest Superseding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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