HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2012

Table 15 Known install and update problems (continued)
Description/actionProblem
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:
WARNING: The patch "PHCO_37128,l=/,r=1.0" contains
some filesets which are superseded and some
filesets which are not superseded. The superseding
patch may be incorrect or may need to be reapplied.
What to do
Run /usr/contrib/bin/check_patches and follow the instructions under
"Missing Patch Filesets" in the check_patches report. It will instruct you to
swinstall the appropriate patches as follows:
WARNING: HP-UX 11.X patches consist of one or more filesets
which are installed only if the corresponding
product fileset is present. If a product fileset
is installed or reinstalled after a patch, the
patch fileset will not be present.
Based on the product filesets that are currently
installed, the following active patches appear to be
missing some applicable patch filesets:
PHCO_38806 is missing patch fileset INET-ENG-A-MAN
PHCO_39297 is missing patch fileset INET-JPN-E-MAN
PHCO_39297 is missing patch fileset INET-JPN-S-MAN
To insure proper operation of these patches,
they should be installed again. It is not
necessary to use the swinstall(1M) reinstall
option, as only the missing patch filesets
need to be installed. The swinstall(1M)
process will automatically install only the
applicable patch filesets
that are missing.
On an HP Integrity system, update from HP-UX 11i v3 September 2008 to HP-UX
11i v3 March 2009 (or later) using OE media might fail when the kernel base
Update using HP-UX 11i v3 March
2009 from OE media might fail
78 Harmless messages and known problems