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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When I patch my global zone with 118666-42, it installs OK in the global zone, then it installs OK when it does the whole root zones.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But, when there are sparse root zones, where the /usr partition is inherited from the global zone, it fails due to read-only file system.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The good news is that despite the failure, and the subsequent back-out of the partial patch, when I run “java -version” it stills sees the “new” version because
its inheriting the patched version from the global zone.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">My concern here is that errors show up in the PCA install log (for the failed patch) and the reports that show missing patches (pca -l) make it look like there
is a missing patch. Auditors don’t like this. Clearly, the patch isn’t truly missing if the patched version is installed and runnable as shown below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This looks like a bug in the patch itself causing it to not handle sparse zones in a user friendly way. Note that the three other Java patches do not have this
issue. I don’t think there is a problem with PCA itself; its simply reporting the errors that patchadd is reporting back.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">$ /usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_40/bin/java -version</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">java version "1.5.0_40"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_40-b02)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.5.0_40-b02, mixed mode)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">$ ../pca -l --minimal missingr</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Mar/03/13</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Host: V210_sparse_zone (SunOS 5.10/Generic_147147-26/sparc/sun4u)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">List: missingr-minimal (1/14)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Patch IR CR RSB Age Synopsis</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">------ -- - -- --- --- -------------------------------------------------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">118666 38 < 42 RS- 14 JavaSE 5.0: update 40 patch (equivalent to JDK 5.0u40)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">$ more /var/tmp/118666-42.log.11833</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">rm: /a/usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_40 not removed: Read-only file system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">rm: /a/usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_40 not removed: Read-only file system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ln: cannot create /a/usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_40/jdk1.5.0: Read-only file system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ln: cannot create /a/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_40: Read-only file system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ln: cannot create /a/usr/bin/javaws: Read-only file system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">/a/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/install/postinstall: /a/usr/share/control-center-2.0/ca</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">pplets/sun_java.desktop: cannot create</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">chmod: WARNING: can't change /a/usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets/sun_java.d</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">esktop</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">chown: /a/usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets/sun_java.desktop: Read-only file</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">chgrp: /a/usr/share/control-center-2.0/capplets/sun_java.desktop: Read-only file</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">cp: cannot create /a/usr/share/pixmaps/sun-java.png: Read-only file system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">cp: cannot create /a/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png: Read-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">only file system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">cp: cannot create /a/usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse/48x48/apps/sun-java.png</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: Read-only file system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">cp: cannot create /a/usr/share/icons/LowContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png: Read-o</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">nly file system</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">/a/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWj5rt/install/postinstall: /a/usr/share/gnome/mime-info/java-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">archive.keys: cannot create</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Installation of <SUNWj5rt> failed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neil G. Brookins<br>
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