[pca] Problem with using PCA after patch application...

[Martin Paul]

Hi,

Just FYI - I tried to reply to the first message you sent directly to 
me, but it's still stuck in the mail queue. Seems like your 
"forrie at forrie.com" address doesn't work.

> I'm using PCA version "pca 20080729-01" -- this weekend, I ran a bunch 
> of patches, rebooted and have been getting the error below.  I refreshed 
> the xref file, etc.

Are you worrying because no missing patches are listed/downloaded? It's 
not because of the bad patch you have installed (this is just a debug 
message); most probably you simply have installed all patches which 
apply to the system.

As for this message:

> Bad patch installed: 120051-04

Does this patch show up when you run "pca -l bad"? If not, you can 
ignore it completely, as it has been obsoleted by another, already 
installed, patch (120012-12 in this case). Anything "bad" which was 
introduced by this patch will be fixed by the patch which obsoleted it.

Even if it does show up in "pca -l bad" output, this is not always a 
real problem; you need to check its README to see why it was marked BAD 
and whether you're affected.

Usually Sun recommends to remove a bad patch which you have installed, 
and reinstall a previous revision. Sometimes this isn't possible, as the 
patch is pre-installed and can't be removed at all. Patches which are 
pre-installed in Solaris do not show up in /var/sadm/patch/, BTW. Look 
for them with "grep 120051 /var/sadm/pkg/*/pkginfo" or "showrev -p".

Martin.