[pca] 127127-11

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:00:56 -0500
>From: "McGranahan, Jamen" <jamen.mcgranahan at Vanderbilt.Edu>
>
>I am having trouble with this kernel patch and was wondering if some of
>you could help me. I noticed in the PCA archives that some others were
>having trouble with this patch as well, but my problem seems to be a
>little different (I think). Here's my environment:
>
>SunOS 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
>
>There are several patches that rely upon 127127-11, but since 127127-11
>is not installed, none of these others get installed either. It doesn't
>seem to be an issue with PCA itself - it does its job. It's something
>with my server, but I'm not exactly sure what. When I try to run pca -i
>127127-11, I get this:
>
>(last few lines)
>
>Checking installed patches...
>
>Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...
>
>Installing patch packages...
>
>Pkgadd failed. See /var/tmp/127127-11.log.10096 for details
>
>Patchadd is terminating.
>
>Failed (exit code 5)
>
>The log files doesn't seem to help much - or at least it's cryptic and I
>don't understand it. Here's the last few lines of the log:
>
>ERROR: Command mount in safemode sandbox not found
>
>usage: puttext [-r rmarg] [-l lmarg] string
>
>pkgadd: ERROR: class action script did not complete successfully
>
>Installation of <SUNW1394> failed.
>
>Right now this is in multi-user mode and it appears that several users
>are able to apply this patch in this mode and did not reboot in
>single-user mode. I'm hoping this is something I can do in multi-user
>mode since it's not really practical to reboot in single-user mode since
>this server resides in another location. Anyway, if you have any ideas
>or suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!
>
>Jamen McGranahan

Hi Jamen

When you specify a patch and revision pca will only install that exact
patch and nothing else. Try without specifying the revision and it
should pick up all the dependancies, eg:

  pca -l 127127

then

  pca -i 127127

regards,
-glenn
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