[pca] 119788-09

[French, David]

Jamen, seems like you may be hitting this issue:  Sun Alert 236641,
BugID 6590187
(http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-236641-1).  

Your problem sounds like the package information in the contents file
are listing /var/sadm/pkg as a directory, but you instead have a
symlink.  This is an issue described in the alert.  There example
references /etc/mail/sendmail.cf but it applies to anything that has
changed file types since installation, e.g. a directory is now a
symlink.

	--Dave
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at 
> [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of McGranahan, Jamen
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:32 AM
> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> Subject: Re: [pca] 119788-09
> 
> I'm really confused. I cannot even get smpatch to work. It 
> keeps looking for /var/sadm/pkg or /var/sadm/patch, and 
> neither directory exists on this server. All of our patches 
> are in the /apps directory - /apps/sadm/pkg and 
> /apps/sadm/patch. I've tried to manually download 
> 119788-09.jar and installing it that way, putting the file 
> first in /var/sadm/spool - then in /apps/sadm/spool. Using 
> smpatch, I get a message stating that 121118-08 is not 
> installed. So, I've downloaded that patch and did the same 
> and got another message, saying I needed 121453-02. So I 
> downloaded that patch and did the same and got another 
> message, stating I needed 119574-02 and 119254-06. I've 
> downloaded both of these and now smpatch tells me that 
> 119574-02 is already installed and 119254-06 is obsolete by a 
> currently installed 119254-42. I did try creating a soft link 
> to point to the appropriate directory to see if that would 
> help (pointing to the /apps directory), but I'm still getting 
> error. I've even tried manually running patchadd - 
> 
> # patchadd -M /apps/sadm/spool 119788-09 Validating patches...
> 
> Loading patches installed on the system...
> 
> Directory is expected, found link - /var/sadm/pkg.
> 
> # patchadd -M /apps/sadm/pkg 119788-09
> Validating patches...
> 
> Loading patches installed on the system...
> 
> Directory is expected, found link - /var/sadm/pkg.
> 
> # patchadd /apps/sadm/spool/119788-09
> Validating patches...
> 
> Loading patches installed on the system...
> 
> Directory is expected, found link - /var/sadm/pkg.
> 
> UGH! I'm not sure what to do now. And I don't understand why 
> all of the other patches installed fine. Any advice and/or 
> guidance would greatly be appreciated! Thanks!
> 
> Jamen McGranahan
> Systems Services Librarian
> Vanderbilt University
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at
> [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:27 AM
> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> Subject: Re: [pca] 119788-09
> 
> Jamen,
> 
> > # pca.pl -i 119788-09
> > ...
> > Cannot check name /var/sadm/pkg.
> 
> I haven't seen that error before. It's not from the prepatch 
> script in this patch, but from patchadd itself 
> (/usr/lib/patch/pdo, actually).
> 
> Searching for what it could mean I found e.g.:
> 
>  
> http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.zones/2006-12/msg00039.html
> 
> Are you using Solaris Zones on the affected system? Are you 
> installing in single-user or multi-user mode? Or is 
> /var/sadm/pkg otherwise unusual, like a symbolic link, 
> mounted via NFS or similar?
> 
> It's strange that all the other patches installed fine, as 
> the error seems more like a general issue to me.
> 
> Were there kernel patches installed during the first pca run, 
> and if so,
> 
> did you reboot already?
> 
> Martin.
> 
> 
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