HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2013

Table 16 Known install and update problems (continued)
Description/actionProblem
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some filesets which are superseded and some
filesets which are not superseded.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
page size (BPS) is set to greater than the 8K value. The update failures were seenwhen the base page size is not 4K
or 8K on systems with the HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM or HPVM) product
(VMKernelSW bundle versions B.04.00 and later) that automatically sets BPS to
64K. The failures might also occur on HP Integrity systems that have BPS set to 16K
or 64K values. The Tunable Base Page Size feature (introduced in September 2008
OE Update) enables these changes (see the base_pagesize(5) manpage). The
update from OE media might fail in one of two ways on systems with BPS > 8K:
1. A read error while reading filesets from the OE media, with a “Bad Address
(14)” wording in the error message. Installing PHKL_39114 will fix the read
error.
2. The update might hang while installing the filesets from the March 2009 OE
(or later) media. Installing PHKL_39114 will not fix this critical problem.
What to do
Before performing an update using the March 2009 OE (or later) media, install
patches PHKL_39509 and PHKL_39594 on HP Integrity systems (which fixes the
defect with the FS buffer cache on systems with the 64K base page size). The
patches can be installed from the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2009 (or later) media.
The system will reboot after installing these patches. After the system boots, you
can proceed with the update.
78 Harmless messages and known problems