HPUX swinstall Cannot establish a lock on this target because of an external error
After your register your depot: # swreg -l depot /dir/to/my/depot And you try to install install you get the error in /var/adm/sw/swinstall.log or as std out: ERROR: “my_host:/dir/to/my/depot”: Cannot establish a lock on this target because of an external error (for example, the lock file could not be created). Try this: # cd /dir/to/my/depot/catalog # […]