Re: Trouble installing Solaris 8 patches

#1 (**permalink**) 01-12-2008, 06:22 AM

On 16 Aug 2003 01:30:48 GMT, grieve@astro.ubc.ca (Gerry Grieve) wrote:

>
>Hi...
> I'm having trouble installing Recommended patch on Solaris 8.
>I was trying to install the cluster J2SE_Solaris_8_Recommended but
>I get similar behavior w the current 8_Recommended. this system
>has be fairly recently patched without trouble...
>
># uname -a
>SunOS wombat 5.8 Generic_108528-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
>
>
>All patchadd's terminate with
>
>"Installation of 110934-14 failed. Return code 5."
>
>The patch logs look like....
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
># more /var/sadm/patch/110934-14/log
>
>This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture and
>version of a package which is already installed. This installation
>will attempt to overwrite this package.
>
>/export/wombat1/sunpatches/8_Recommended/110934-14/SUNWarc/install/checkinstall: /tmp/installhTayqp/respiTayqp: cannot create
>pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
>Dryrun complete.
>No changes were made to the system.
><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
>by poking around in the checkinstall script, I find that it dies when it tries to "cat >> /tmp/installhTayqp/respiTayqp"
>
>
>Any ideas?? gerry

Ensure that all of the directories leading up to and including the one
where the patches are located are readable.

Josh

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