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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How do I use pca to patch inactive boot environment?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Whenever I try to us pca.perl to apply patches to an inactive boot environment, I see pkgadd and patchadd and “exit code 5” error messages for each patch:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Patch 119254-81 failed to install due to a failure produced by <b>pkgadd.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>See /.alt.Sol10_u6/var/sadm/patch/119254-81/log for details<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Patchadd </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>is terminating.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Failed (exit code 5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>I use “lumount <i>inactive_BE</i>” to mount the inactive boot environment before attempting to patch:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><b># lumount Sol10_u6<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve tried two different versions of the pca.perl command, with different options. However, the result is the same – the pkgadd error appears.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><b># ./pca.perl --root=/.alt.Sol10_u6 -y -i -P /usr/local/patches missingrs<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><b># ./pca.perl --root=/.alt.Sol10_u6 –install<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How do I use pca to patch inactive boot environment?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note: The two pca.perl commands shown above work fine when I patch the active boot environment. In other words, I leave out the “—root=/.alt.Sol10_u6” option.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lisa<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lisa Becktold<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>System Administrator<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chugach Federal Solutions, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>NASA Center for AeroSpace Information Contract<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phone: 443 995 5805<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>