<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:p="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint" xmlns:a="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:c="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet" xmlns:odc="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:odc" xmlns:oa="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:q="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:rtc="http://microsoft.com/officenet/conferencing" xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:Repl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/repl/" xmlns:mt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/" xmlns:x2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml" xmlns:ppda="http://www.passport.com/NameSpace.xsd" xmlns:ois="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/ois/" xmlns:dir="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:dsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" xmlns:udc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:sub="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/2002/1/alerts/" xmlns:ec="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" xmlns:sp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" xmlns:sps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:udcs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/soap" xmlns:udcxf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile" xmlns:udcp2p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/parttopart" xmlns:wf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/workflow/" xmlns:dsss="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig-setup" xmlns:dssi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig" xmlns:mdssi="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/digital-signature" xmlns:mver="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:mrels="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships" xmlns:spwp="http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages" xmlns:ex12t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:ex12m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:pptsl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/SlideLibrary/" xmlns:spsl="http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/PublishedLinksService" xmlns:Z="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" xmlns:st="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
span.EmailStyle19
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi, Glenn:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your e-mail. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>You hit upon the problem – the inactive BE / was at 100% disk utilization. This was due to java core files – which was why I was applying patches in the first place, to fix java and eliminate the core files.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Anyway, once I removed some of the java core files from /var/core and freed up space on the inactive boot environment, pca worked just fine and I was able to patch the inactive boot environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Glen Gunselman<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pca] pca returns patchadd error - inactive BE<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Did you install that patch (the </span>Install and Patch Utilities Patch (119254)) on the “active” BE?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think an exit code of 5 is IO error:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>grep EIO /usr/include/sys/errno.h<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>#define EIO 5 /* I/O error */<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How much free space on the inactive BE?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can you create/delete dir and files on the mounted inactive BE?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Are you using ZFS?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope some of this helps, I’m mostly just thinking though the keyboard ...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Glen Gunselman<br>Systems Software Specialist<br>TCS<br>Emporia State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lisa M. (LARC-B7)[Chugach Federal Solutions Inc.] Becktold<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 30, 2011 2:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> Glen Gunselman; pca@lists.univie.ac.at<br><b>Subject:</b> [pca] pca returns patchadd error - inactive BE<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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>