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 http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Host to The Co-Operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html Author of: Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases Screen saver or Life saver: http://www.ud.com Use spare CPU to assist in cancer research. -----Original Message----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |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 PHCO_17058 has been replaced by PHCO_23876 (Latest Superseding Patch) and |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@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 |> -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).