[pca] iconv error

Ben Taylor bentaylor.solx86 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 01:16:03 CEST 2009


When you say "rebuilt", do you mean "reinstalled", or reimaged from backups?

ldd /usr/local/bin/wget will probably indicate which SunFreeware packages
you may have forgotten to install.


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:39 PM, McGranahan, Jamen
<jamen.mcgranahan at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> Has anyone seen this error before? I haven’t been able to find much about it
> via Google, so thought I would check here - idn_decode failed (9): `System
> iconv failed'. We have had to rebuild this server and we want to get it
> patched asap. I’ve installed the most recent version of wget and all of its
> dependencies, so I’m not sure what is going on here. Here is the debug
> output:
>
>
>
> # perl pca.pl -i --debug
>
> Option install: 1
>
> Option patchdir: /opt/patches/.
>
> Option user: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Option passwd: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Option syslog: local0
>
> Option debug: 1
>
> ARGV: missing
>
> Version: 20090408-01
>
> Config files: ./pca.conf pca.conf
>
> Using /usr/local/bin/wget (1.12, 11200, https)
>
> Prerequisites for threads not met, setting threads to 0
>
> Never update
>
> Expanded patch list: missing
>
> Downloading xref file to /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref
>
> Trying https://sunsolve.sun.com/patchdiag.xref (1/1)
>
> /usr/local/bin/wget "https://sunsolve.sun.com/patchdiag.xref"
> --ca-certificate=pca.pl -O /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref
>
> --2009-10-06 15:36:51--  https://sunsolve.sun.com/patchdiag.xref
>
> idn_decode failed (9): `System iconv failed'
>
> Resolving sunsolve.sun.com... failed: node name or service name not known.
>
> wget: unable to resolve host address `sunsolve.sun.com'
>
> Failed
>
> Failed (patchdiag.xref not found)
>
> Reading from /usr/bin/showrev -p  2>/dev/null
>
>
>
> ERROR: Can't open xref file /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref (No such file or
> directory)
>
> Cleanup
>
>
>
> ***********************************
>
> * Jamen McGranahan
>
> * Systems Services Librarian
>
> * Library Information Technology Services
>
> * Vanderbilt University
>
> * Suite 700
>
> * 110 21st Avenue South
>
> * Nashville, TN  37240
>
> * (615) 343-1614
>
> * (615) 343-8834 (fax)
>
> * jamen.mcgranahan at vanderbilt.edu
>
> ***********************************
>
>



More information about the pca mailing list