[pca] no patches for several weeks

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Fri Jun 19 09:41:42 CEST 2009


Jamen,

McGranahan, Jamen wrote:
> It's great to get this message, but it's been at least since April
> that any patches have been installed, which I know is not right. What
> can I do to check on this?

The first thing to check would whether the output of "pkginfo -x" looks 
reasonable, ie. shows at least a few hundred installed packages. If 
pkginfo output is incorrect, take a look at /var/sadm/pkg/. You should 
have a lot of directories with files named "pkginfo" in them.

Also take a look at /var/tmp/patchdiag, and check if it has a reasonable 
size and format (or use a copy from another machine, where pca output is 
fine).

If all of the above is fine, please send me (not to the list) output 
from these commands:

   uname -a > uname.out
   showrev -p > showrev.out
   pkginfo -x > pkginfo.out

for further diagnosis.

Martin.



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