[pca] trouble with patch 120185-19 on solaris 10

[Martin Paul]

Gerard,

> 2 days ago, i installed this patch with pca on a sparc machine, and pca 
> said that the patch is installed:
> Oct 17 07:55:57 mombasa pca: [ID 702911 local6.notice] Installed patch 
> 120185-19

You can look at /var/sadm/patch/120185-19/log to see if it reports problems.

As far as pca is concerned, it doesn't do anything on its own when 
installing patches; it just unzips the patch and runs patchadd.

> but this morning, i discover that a process isn't completed:
> ...
>     8740  /bin/sh /opt/staroffice8/program/unopkg remove --shared 
> SunSearchTool

This seems to come from the postinstall script in 
120185-19/SUNWstaroffice-sunsearchtoolbar/install/ - it removes and adds 
the "UNO extension SunSearchToolbar.oxt" (whatever that is).

It's strange that the patchadd completed successfully although the 
postinstall script obviously didn't. Here's what I would try:

Kill the "unopkg" process, then remove and re-install the patch with 
"patchrm" and "patchadd". If it completes successfully (without leaving 
any running postinstall processes) - fine. If not, look at the 
postinstall script and try to run the "unopkg remove"/"unopkg add" manually.

If nothing helps report the problem to Sun if you have the chance to do 
so (ie. have a support contract).

Martin.