[pca] no patches for several weeks

[McGranahan, Jamen]

Pkginfo -x = nothing returns

/var/sadm/pkg = one zip file (119788-09.zip)

# cd /var/tmp
# ls -lta patchdiag.*
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     root     3033936 Jun 18 13:47 patchdiag.xref

After doing even more digging yesterday, I wonder if my jdk is the issue because smpatch also fails. According to this in the Sun forum (http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5361159&tstart=1), Java 1.6.0_10 causes a problem with smpatch/updatemanager. I've tried doing the suggestions in this forum (changing pprosvc to JAVACMD="/usr/jdk/latest/bin/java -version:1.5*" and changing updatemanager to JAVA_EXEC="/usr/jdk/latest/bin/java -version:1.5*"), but still no dice. 

# java -version
java version "1.6.0_12"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_12-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 11.2-b01, mixed mode)

But according to a post by the ForumModerator, it is supposed to be fixed in this version of java we're running: 

The fix should be released in Java 1.6.0_12 (JDK 6 update 12) and is being tracked in CR #6771432.


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: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:42 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] no patches for several weeks

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.