Solaris

Hello,

The 10_Recommended update failed on 3 of 191, which was patch 119254-73 (the 1st 2 patches were skipped). I looked up the patch on Sunsolve (http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-119254), which stated that 121133-02 was a required patch for 119254-73. I did a "showrev -p | grep 121133" and found that 121133 has been obsoleted by 120011-14. So it looks like I have what is required to install the patch. Oddly enough, patch 119254-73 deals w/ patching the system.

Several logs were created and the common error message is that "Patch 119254-73 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd"

Another error message was:

"This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture and version of a package that is already installed. The installation will attempt to overwrite this package. ... Cannot open pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully".

I'm certainly not a Solaris expert, so I'm not sure where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Ken

A quick question.. are the majority of the patches succeeded including the kernel patch?
If yes, then ignore it. You may just try to copy the patch to a temp dir, and manually do a patchadd. Provide us the output

incredible,

No patches succeed. It checks for the dependancy patches, confirms they exist, skipps them, then begins to apply 119254-73...Then crashes. I will try to install 119254-73 manually rather than through the 10_Recommended update and let you know if it takes.

Ken

---------- Post updated at 02:17 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:19 AM ----------

I manually installed 119254-73 and it installed successfully. I then ran the 10_Recommeneded update and it failed on the next patch install (7 of 191). It looks like it's the "installcluster" script that is failing. I don't know if this matters, but when I manually installed 119254-73 I did not go into single user mode but I am in single user mode for the cluster update. Could there be some service or proccess turned off in single user mode that is available is normal mode that the install process requires?

Ken

... by any chance, do you have Solaris zones implemented in this server? Maybe one that was configured but not activated?

No zones

I have seen problems before similar to this when there was a corrupt pkginfo in /var/sadm but none of the commands were outputting anything useful.

Try the single pkagadd on he package, and if you get nothing then truss or dtrace the same to see what actually fails.

All patches are recommended to be patched in single user mode.
what is your current patch level? which latest 10_Recommended patch cluster are you using?