I have a couple of small boxes with low disk space almost out of space on /var due to patches - Mostly running Sol10 1/06 - If I were to 'upgrade' these to the latest revision of Sol10, would obsolete patches be removed that way?I remember with older OSes the availability of the maintenance ...

I guess for the most part is bad metadata that these patches make it down to us.But what's the best procedure to get these to be looked at ?Also, if we have a support contract, should we do it via those channels ?TIA...

appied all patches recommended by SUN on solaris 9, 10, but it only work on Mar 11, and didn't work for Nov 4.I tested it on Nov 4, 01:59am, and it didn't move one hour back.

"registration failed"userName and password are mine, and work fine on SO. Another coworker has tried this same registration with his SO ID and it fails in the same ...

This happened today on both my Solaris 10 test servers (SPARC and x86) when I ran`smpatch update'. The immediate patch installation went normally, but when I used`init 6' to reboot, the console said:Installing update 119685-10 FailedInstalling update 118371-08 FailedInstalling update ...

After two attempts of getting the firewall rules right to allow a server to patch itself (after akamai changed their IP address!), I've deployed Sun Update Connection Proxy only to discover yet *another* server requires access.Is there a definitive list? So far I have:- 198.232.168.136 ...

Hello guys..CAn anyone tell me what are the patches that need to be installed for my Solaris 10 SPARC machine ?.. here is my /etc/release ============================================# cat /etc/release Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a SPARCCopyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Use ...

I've deployed SUCP and it has full access to the Internet. If I point any clients at the proxy server and run 'smpatch analyze', it returns "No patches required.". If I point the client directly at sunupdates1.sun.com, it returns a list of patches. This can be seen below:root@seashell# ...

#cat RegistrationProfile.properties# CLI registration profile template version 1.0# ******** WARNING ********# This profile contains sensitive data: passwords and subscription# keys. You should take care in how you handle it, ensuring that it# is always adequately protected (mode 400 or 600, ...

How to update DST patch. Whatat are the necessary steps that have to be taken on the servers to update this patch?.

How to update DST patch. Whatat are the necessary steps that have to be taken on the servers to update this patch?.

what are the steps to find out the reasons it crashThank u for ur response

I have a V20z running Solaris 10 (6/06 I believe) which has been registered successfullywith the Sun Update Connection and it has, until recently, been getting and applyingpatches successfully.After the last set of patches was applied (involving a reboot), the machine has taken togenerating an ...

sconadm commandline and output:# /usr/sbin/sconadm register -a -r ./RegistrationProfile.propertiessconadm is runningException in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableExceptionat $Proxy1.getInstanceName(Unknown Source)at ...

I just completed a patch upgrade on the Solaris 10 machine that runs our local patchserver. It needed several hundred patches, as it hadn't been patched since September.After that, the behavior of our Solaris 10 patch clients has changed. For example, on oneclient a few days earlier `smpatch ...

I have a SF25K with 12 domains (identical) all direct connect to the net (no proxy, no firewall)From the first domain I was able to run updatemanager, fill in all the fields and get/install the patches ; From the other 11 domains nothing works ; after filling in the fields, it just sits there. ...

I setup an LPS on Solaris 10 11/06 server. It is not downloading all the patches? The following is my setup:patchdiag |egrep "119788|120335|121081|121118|121453|121563|122231|123005|124463|124614"11978807CURRENT SunOS 5.10: Sun Update Connection Proxy 1.0.912033504CURRENT SunOS 5.10: Sun Update ...

Hi everyone,I'am trying to register our new Solaris 10 system in order to receive updates. I followed the first steps without success. The tool sconadm just gives me the following output:-bash-3.00# sconadm register -a -r /tmp/registrationprofile.propertiessconadm is runningThat's it! It ...

How can i tell, if i have sun one connection update installed on my system and how can i apply any patch that i need for my system via the command? is there a command that goes out and look for patches required for my system?

Updatemanager has been invoked on Solaris 10 hardware for the Sun Blade 100 and an Ultra-80 and patching no longer works. It has been reporting that these patches "122660-08", "120473-03", "124393-03" and "125116-01" fail with an exit code of 997. It mentions that the "patch is not available in ...

We have a V890 running Solaris 10 that has two zones (containers) running instancesof Oracle database. `smpatch' won't install patch 118833-36 in the normal mannerbecause it's flagged as an interactive patch. The recommended procedure is to shutthe server down, boot it in single-user mode ...

I can do an smpatch analyze from the LPS server directly to Sun, but the LPS never caches the current.zip or any other files for that matter.It was working fine a few days ago (3/14/2007)Here's the errors from a diag run:# smpatch analyze -@ -C patchpro.internal.statustags=true -C ...

I have setup an LPS on Solaris 10 03/05. I have followed the following procedure.# 11978[8|9]-07: Sun Update Connection Proxy 1.0.9# 12033[5|6]-04: Sun Update Connection Client Localization# 12108[1|2]-06: Connected Customer Agents 1.1.0# 12111[8|9]-11: Sun Update Connection System Client ...

Hello!I'd tried to use updatemanager on the host behind the firewall. Attempt of setup proxy cause the exception java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableExceptionat $Proxy1.getInstanceName(Unknown Source)at ...

Patch 120445-01 will not apply to a Solaris 9 (09/2005) setup. The hardware is an Ultra-80.Although it is recommended, it fails with the "patchadd" message:Checking installed patches...One or more patch packages included in 120445-01 are not installed on this system.The host was installed from ...

I have just install solaris on my intel server and found that only the loop back interface has been recognised. Will solaris recognise my built in adapter or do I need to put another NIC in the box?Iain Cox

Hi, I have a Solaris 9 machine that is not allowing me to addpatch 112233.12. When I use patchadd, I get the message:Checking installed patches...Re-installing patch 112233-12...One or more patch packages included in112233-12 are not installed on this system.My system config is:Solaris 9 4/04 ...

I've noticed 'smpatch analyze' seems to be routinely missing some patches. When comparing what smpatch recommends vs. something like PCR, we keep getting a few discrepancies. When you input individual patches to smpatch however, it will report as needing that patch. For example:#smpatch ...

Hi,we are looking at sun management software and noticed that it costs about $300+ per client. what is an alternative to this which is less expensive or free? what are you other admins doing?thanks,~jv

Is there any relief for this problem? It seems that whenever a client runs smpatch,the local patch server discards perfectly good jar and zip files and replaces themwith empty files. find . \( -name '*.jar' -o -name '*.zip' \) -size 0 -exec rm '{}' ';'works nicely for removing them, but ...

Install Solaris 10 11/06 and after doing updates and rebooting, unable to complete the check for updates. I get "java.lang.NullpointerException update manager" while anayzing the system.Can somebody help me here?

Hello !I have installed Solarias 10 1/06 some time ago and today I managed to get most of the updates installed with Sun Update Connection, but now my Solarias system will not boot !It says: 'cannot mount boot archives' and prompts me to press a key for reboot.Note that some of the updates ...

`smpatch analyze' shows these patches:118562-12 SunOS 5.10: Solaris Data Encryption Kit Patch118563-12 SunOS 5.10_x86: Solaris Data Encryption Kit Patchbut `smpatch download' says:The following patches were not downloaded:118562-12: Request to download update failed. Status code 404 returned. ...

hi,I installed s10 3/05 and all available patches via smpatch. In s10 6/06 a new package SUNWfcprt is included. Why isn't it installed? Doesn't smpatch work correctly?Thanksfor answer.Regards Eric

I have registered a system earlier w/subscription key (contract number) and for some unknown reason, it got a number of process queued in in progress status (for over 3 months!). I've updated the system via update manager and there should be no outstanding patches. In order for me to clear ...

Hello,we applied smpatch 'patch' 112945-44 to use smpatch function.After patch was applied, server (Solaris 9) change locale ?(from C or Posix to also installed German de)Any ideas ? I like to read my system messages in english, also a lot of scripts ...... the not work properly with german ...

I've just upgraded my support plan to include a second host. Have been using 'smpatch' w/o incident for more than a year. on the older host.I've used updatemanager to register my second system. It says I successfully registered, but when I restart it, it says I'm not registered. The online ...

hi guys,I cant seem to use my smpatch a solaris 8 (sparc), though i can get and set:Solaris8#smpatch getpatchpro.backout.directory/var/sadm/spool/backout ""patchpro.download.directory-/var/sadm/spoolpatchpro.install.types ...

Hi,Is there any way to use a different version of java for smpatch running on Solaris 8 (Patch_Manager 2.0)?The application that I happen to have installed on the server is configured to use the system version of java (/usr/bin/java) and must be kept at a version of 1.2.2 for their application ...

Hello,Forgive me if I missed this elsewhere, however I'm experiencing syslogd using 50% to 190% cpu time on a dual processor v280R system. Is this normal behavior or am I missing a patch?Thanks,Matt

I have Solaris 10 06/06 installed on x86 machine which is using svm and clustered with another node. The kernel revision is 118855-19 from the uname -a output. I am looking for the kernel patch updation and I heard 118855-36 is the latest one. Shall I go ahead with this patch and what r the ...

I was wondering if I could get some clarification on why this error is occurring:# smpatch update -i 124258-03Error: One or more of the updates specified do not have entitlement permissions.This occurs with several patches, on several systems that connect to a LPS to receive patches. The one ...

I've read through most of the discussions and have not been able to find an answer. I am running Solaris 8 and appear to have all of the settings correct, but smpatch analyze always returns - no patches required.smpatch get ...

Our Solaris 9 machines had been updating fine for some months, but now thesmpatch analyze or download commands hang indefinitely. How can I debug this?Thanks.

Hello!I have one machine with Solaris10/x86 here and want to install all patches which are listed by "smpatch analyze". But there is one patch (122647-04) which does not install at all. It is not even listed in /var/sadm/spool/disallowed_patch_list_report.For about four or five times I did an ...

Hi everyone,I am wondering about the differences between the patchpro.patchsets. When I use patchpro.patchset=current smpatch analyze gives me 69 available patches. In contrast, using smpatch analyze with patchpro.patchset=sfv2x5 results in "No patches required".As far as I knew sfv2x5 and ...

Any thoughts on what am I missing here? I've tried this multiple ways. smpatch analyze runs fine in local mode on all machines I'm testing. I have not seen remote mode work once. (i) First scenario, I enabled wbem to accept remote connections. Then, I tried to analyze another host with ...

In my testing, I have a local patch server configured per the helpful tips in this forum and by following some documentation posted to BigAdmin.It works as expected with smpatch in local mode, and with updatemanager on a specific machine. I have not seen it work yet for smpatch in remote mode, ...

I downloaded patch 120744-02.zip, and unzipped.But when try to install it using patchadd it says ...SUNWmcom which is different from the already existing package in the system, and it quit without installing the other packages.i used the following command# patchadd 120744-02what will be the ...

had system registered, S10U2 flar for our Toshiba M5sdid LU to S10U3 flar, reregistered system. Still showing OLD build under Update Connection. same host name, how do I delete?thanks