Tag Archives: bug

Bug: Installing a Netbackup Media server in a HP-UX SRP-enabled environment

This is a bug I found during the installation of a Netbackup Media server. The target system was an HP-UX 11iv3 which has several SRP containers integrated into ServiceGuard. As I started the installation script on the global container, it failed with an swinstall error stating that it couldn’t set the SRP containers into maintenance [...]

Virtual Connect bug found

According to a thread on ITRC a strange bug was detected, affected are all HP Virtual Connect Ethernet Modules in a c-class Bladesystem enclosure up to firmware version 3.15 (that’s the latest firmware downloadable from BSC). The symptoms are that all the VC modules are trying to communicate to the outside world, they are attempting [...]

Bug in userdel found – affects all 11i v1,v2,v3

This is my first bug I’ve found in HP-UX. In the following story I modified some data to protect our customers privacy. According to the white book of our customer, a user integrated into a HA package need to be created with a symlinked home directory like this: # ll -d /home/user1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root [...]