[pca] Failed File Verification

[Martin Paul]

Coskun, Aydin wrote:
> Can anyone please help me? I get this error :
> 
> Checking files for safe patch installation
> 
> failed file verification:
> 
> ERROR: /usr/sbin/flarcreate
> 
>     modtime <04/27/10 11:35:04 AM> expected <11/18/10 10:48:50 AM> actual
>     file size <32320> expected <32420> actual
>     file cksum <18824> expected <26615> actual

You are running PCA with its "--safe" option. This runs "pkgchk" on every file 
included in a patch before installing the patch, to ensure that a patch won't 
overwrite files with local modifications (patchadd would simply replace the file 
with the version included in the patch zip file).

Sometimes the database with the checksums isn't correct, though, leading to 
false warnings. It's on the admin to decide what to do then: If you're sure that 
the file can be safely overwritten, re-run the patch installation without "--safe".

In your example it's /usr/sbin/flarcreate which doesn't have the size and 
checksum it's supposed to have. I haven't seen any false warnings with that 
file. Maybe it was indeed modified locally for some reason?

Martin.