[pca] Solaris 2.6 patching difficulty.

[Techie]

Thanks for the response, I appreciate it.

I ran a pca --update=now and it cleared up my problem.

Thanks again
Jimmy


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:08 PM, McGranahan, Jamen
<jamen.mcgranahan at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> Check your subscription to be sure you are authorized to get patches for Sun 6. We ran into that some time ago with our Sun 8 boxes, not realizing our subscription did not include 8 (only 9 & 10).
>
> 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 Techie
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:05 PM
> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> Subject: [pca] Solaris 2.6 patching difficulty.
>
> Hello,
> I am trying to use pca to load some patches on Solaris 6.
> When I try to load a patch with pca -i it fails saying ..
> Failed
> Failed (patch not found)
>
> Installing 106957-01 (1/1)
> Failed (missing patch file)
>
> I have my sunsolve information in the /etc/pca.conf file and have
> authenticated to the proxy already. So I can use wget from the command
> line. For example wget www.google.com.
>
> Any idea why this could be happening?
> Output is below.
>
> Thank you in advance
> Jimmy
>
> # pca -i 106957
> Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Nov/12/09
> Host: highway (SunOS 5.6/Generic_105181-05/sparc/sun4u)
> List: 106957 (1/4013)
>
> Patch  IR   CR RSB Age Synopsis
> ------ -- - -- --- --- -------------------------------------------------------
> 106957 -- < 01 --- 999 OpenWindows 3.6: fstobdf core dumps with 2-byte fonts
>
> Looking for 106957-01 (1/1)
> Trying http://sunsolve.sun.com/ (1/1)
> Failed
> Failed (patch not found)
>
> Installing 106957-01 (1/1)
> Failed (missing patch file)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Download Summary: 1 total, 0 successful, 0 skipped, 1 failed
> Install Summary : 1 total, 0 successful, 0 skipped, 1 failed
> # pca -l 106957
> Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Nov/12/09
> Host: highway (SunOS 5.6/Generic_105181-05/sparc/sun4u)
> List: 106957 (1/4013)
>
> Patch  IR   CR RSB Age Synopsis
> ------ -- - -- --- --- -------------------------------------------------------
> 106957 -- < 01 --- 999 OpenWindows 3.6: fstobdf core dumps with 2-byte fonts
>
>