[pca] List: Missing

[Martin Paul]

Hi,

> However I ran the commands and here is the output:
> 
> # uname -a
> SunOS Enterprise 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 
> 
> # showrev -p
> No patches are installed
> 
> # pkginfo -x
> ...

That's what I was suspecting - the list of installed patches and 
packages is incomplete. Your pkginfo output doesn't show a single SUNW* 
package. So for Solaris' package system (and pca) it looks as if none of 
the packages that make up the Solaris OS are installed.

Do you see any SUNW* directories in /var/sadm/pkg/, and if so, how many 
(ls -d /var/sadm/pkg/SUNW* | wc -l)?

You probably lost the contents of /var/sadm/pkg/ on this machine at some 
time in the past, maybe when copying/moving it around. This could happen 
when moving the pkg directory to a different file system for space 
reasons and replacing it with a symbolic link - this doesn't work. If 
you have the original pkg/ directory somewhere, you problaby could 
combine it with what is there now and getting to a usable state again. 
Without the necessary package metadata, you will not be able to ever 
install patches on this machine again unless you reinstall the OS.

Martin.