[pca] iconv error

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Wed Oct 7 08:49:42 CEST 2009


McGranahan, Jamen 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'.

Never seen the message before. Try "wget 
https://sunsolve.sun.com/patchdiag.xref" to check whether this is an 
error from pca/perl or from wget.

I don't think that this is the real issue, though:

> wget: unable to resolve host address `sunsolve.sun.com' Failed

Seems as if DNS isn't setup correctly - check /etc/resolv.conf and 
/etc/nsswitch.conf. Try "getent hosts sunsolve.sun.com" - it should 
return an IP address for sunsolve. You could workaround this by using 
"--shost=192.18.108.40" with pca.

Martin.



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