[pca] Patching Solaris 10

[Sapin, Hugues]

I have faced same symptoms with patch 120011-14 few weeks ago on a server and still have to log a call to SUN.

It has nothing to do with the tool used to patch (pca in this case) but my understanding is the patch itself is at stake.

Hugues.


-----Message d'origine-----
De : pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] De la part de Cromwell, Ray, VF-IE
Envoyé : Friday, September 05, 2008 4:23 AM
À : PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Objet : [pca] Patching Solaris 10

Hi , 
    Has anyone had any problems patching Solaris 10 . 
Server had problems installing allot of patches which pca recommended . 
e.g.

This Kernel patch failed with the following errors . Got allot of these
errors with other patches also .

Patchadd is terminating.
Installing 118833-36...
Validating patches...

Loading patches installed on the system...

Done!

Loading patches requested to install.

Version of package SUNWcakr from directory SUNWcakr.v in patch 118833-36
differs from the package installed on the system.
Version of package SUNWkvm from directory SUNWkvm.v in patch 118833-36
differs from the package installed on the system.
Version of package SUNWcakr from directory SUNWcakr.us in patch
118833-36 differs from the package installed on the system.
Version of package SUNWkvm from directory SUNWkvm.us in patch 118833-36
differs from the package installed on the system.
Done!

The following requested patches have packages not installed on the
system
Package SUNWcart200 from directory SUNWcart200.v in patch 118833-36 is
not installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWcart200 wil
l not be applied to the system.
Package SUNWcti2 from directory SUNWcti2.u in patch 118833-36 is not
installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWcti2 will not be
applied to the system.
Package SUNWcvcr from directory SUNWcvcr.u in patch 118833-36 is not
installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWcvcr will not be
applied to the system.
Package SUNWdcsr from directory SUNWdcsr in patch 118833-36 is not
installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWdcsr will not be ap
plied to the system.
Package SUNWdcsu from directory SUNWdcsu in patch 118833-36 is not
installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWdcsu will not be ap
plied to the system.
Package SUNWdrcr from directory SUNWdrcr.u in patch 118833-36 is not
installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWdrcr will not be
applied to the system.
Package SUNWdrr from directory SUNWdrr.u in patch 118833-36 is not
installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWdrr will not be app
lied to the system.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        





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