Hi,I have attempted several times to register a sun box using the update connection, but every time I get to the final step it tells me that my login information does not match a valid Sun Account.I reset my password and tried again with the same issue. I can login everywhere else on sun but ...

Hello,I have added manually the patch no. 119108-06 to my S10 x86 machine. I expect to see under the 'About' dialog box in UM the version 1.0.1 - but it is not it is still 1.0Question: How can I be sure I have 1.0.1 properly installed on my system ?stefan@nereid>showrev -p |grep 'Patch: ...

How can I change the user id that a system was registered as?

Who named the prepatch script prePatch in this one? In 10 years I've never seen one with a capital "P".

Attempting compile Solaris 10 Sparc of qpopper4.1and vmpop3d-1.1.6 ./configure with and without options runs with no reported errors.Compile of both packages fails with same error as belowvm-pop3d errorsIn file included from /usr/include/sys/wait.h:24,from vm-pop3d.h:122,from ...

Have a system that I applied patches to last week, all of the available. Did an init 6 to get the ones that required restarts to be installed. System came back up and it still said there were 11 "in progress". Manually ran smpatch update and did an init 6 again this week and now it says there ...

Here's a suggestion: Update Manager should maybe check to see if there is enough room in /var before filling it up instead of just filling up /var and crashing! Sign me "sadder but wiser and now manually checking /var before running Update Manager", which is otherwise a nice tool.

Hello,Today I have tried to update my system with the latest patches what UM found. Between these patches, patch no. 120777-03 requiered that I do smpatch add -i 120777-03. and that what I did.However the UM still shows this patch as being available to be installed. I tried to click 'check for ...

Hello,From time to time I have seen that UM does not report the updates automatically. I think I got this problem two or three times already.I had to manually login under UM and click the 'Check for Updates' button. After that I have got a list of available patches. any ideas why the UM fails ...

I realize this probably isn't the place to ask this, but I have some Solaris 8 systems running current patch tools and all day today smpatch analyze was hanging.Ran pprosvc -l and got:Assessing patches needed for your system...Response code was 500Ran it again and it's just sitting.Is ...

For about 5 hours, I have had 74 updates "In Progress". Nothing seems to be happening. "Drilling down" on the jobs doesn't really tell me anything.Is this new update methodology functioning?DG

The "Is" missed my last post...This probably isn't the place to post this, but I'm not sure where else to ask. Running smpatch or even pprosvc -l on a Solaris 8 system and it just sits.Once in a while it comes back with an HTTP 500 error on the https://updateserver.sun.com/solaris/ URL. Maybe ...

Has anyone tried to install Solaris 9 x86 on the new Ultra 20? We have a proprietary application that will not run under 10. I've looked all through Sun and only see 10 as certified. However, it doesn't state that 9 can't run on the box.

Ive noticed that sometimes the my local patch proxy doesnt pick up all the patches.Theres a bunch of patches that just showed up today on the sun server. But if I point a machine at my local patch proxy, they don't show up in an smpatch analyze (or in the um display).Point the machine back to ...

Or do I have to reinstall?Frustrated by Update Manager silently filling up /var (next time the l'il beggar /var gets FOUR GIGABYTES I tell ya) I deleted some archives maintained by patchadd etc. and of course patchadd doesn't work anymore.Can I get patchadd to work again, or is it time to ...

I just tried cross checking a machine that was completely up to date according to patch manager with the Sol 9 recommended patch set.The recommended patch set included the following patches that patch manager doesnt appear to distribute.114049, 111711, 111712, 119211.I would have thought ...

Been running very well for a while, now I'm getting these errors after an smpatch update/bash-3.00# smpatch updatecom.sun.patchpro.util.Percentage@96b5c2119146-05 has been validated.com.sun.patchpro.util.Percentage@5db5ae119253-05 has been ...

Does Sun offer customer initiated chat sessions for technical support calls? (or can Sun technical support reps initiate chat sessions with customers for that matter)

anyone knows where is the solaris?10 bundled patch HW1 ?

I have a few headless Solaris 8 boxes which are now running Patch Manager CLI (SUNWpmgr v2.00). There are times when they can抰 access the patch hosting site (揜esponse code was 500?error message). Running 搒mpatch get patchpro.patch.source?returns https://updateserver.sun.com/solaris/. Now on a ...

Problem:Install NetConnect in Global Zone of Solaris 10 x86 with 5 local zone failedBut I didn't have any issue with the same pkg in Solaris 9Steps taken:# groupadd netcon# useradd -d /export/home/netcon -g netcon -m netcon# vi /etc/shadowchange *LK* to NP# ...

Have a Solaris 10 system that I had to reinstall named gsbgcn2. Blasted an OS to it and configured it. Removed the system from the Update Connection portal and waited 24 hours. Trying to re-register the system today and get the following message box from updatemanager during the final phace of ...

I am patching an Ultra-10 with the kitchen sink patches. I have always selected them all and it always installs every one successfully.I finally had failures applying the patches 120824-02 and 120844-01. The following patches were successfully applied: 120537-03, 118370-04, 120661-02, ...

I have to Samsumg LCD monitors to process a heavy data analysis, but I need to rotate the monitors, because I am more interested in vertical data comparison rather than horizontal. I haven't been able to find the right information to do this. Samsung has a nice program that runs in Win XP. I ...

I notice theres a metaslot patch out.Anyone know if it fixes the problems that the patch proxy had with metaslot.

Recently I installed a number of patches that required a restart. During the shutdown processing I noticed that a few patches returned a failed status. After the system came back up, I restarted updatemanager and looked to see if there was any info on the failures but I did not see any sign ...

Update manage shows patches 120844-01 SunOS 5.10: platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/sparcv9/glvc patch120824-02 SunOS 5.10: usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200/lib/libprtdiag_psr.so.1 Patchto install.But they can't be installed because our boxes are missing the appropriate packages for architecture ...

I noticed that some patches which had been delayed to shutdown arent being installed.After a lot of mucking around, it appears that the "installupdates" script is no longer being called as part of the shutdown sequence.The change happened with patch 121086-01.And I can verify that pre patch the ...

The system that I'm describing is a V280R therefore SUN Sparc 64-bit platform, running Solaris 10.For some reason my update manager downloaded and tries to install patches that are relevant for x86 platforms only. Reason why I see two updates on my "available updates" list ...

I am wondering if this product will update opensource products like apache/php/mysql. If not are there suggestions on something that will?-WilliamThanks in advance!

Ive recently noticed a problem with the shutdown process hanging during patch installation.I do a "shutdown -y -g0 -i6" as usual.The box remails usable, but the shutdown never completes.I bit of investigation reveals its related to patch 119578-09.The prepatch attempts to disable the fmd ...

Ive noticed that updatemanager hasnt presented any new patches for a few weeks.I thought it was just a lull in the patch creation process.However, I recently ran a recommended patch set through a machine and noticed that it installed a bunch of patches that updatemanager wasnt presenting, ...

Has anyone heard when the Sun Update Connection will be available for Solaris 9

A fix has been tested and should be released either Close of Business today or tomorrow morning. The fixes will be in patches 121087-02 (x86) or 121086-02 (SPARC). In the mean time you can use the following work around:Create 3 hard ...

An attempt was made to patch 118822-20. It will download and it says that it will be installed at reboot. I followed the prompts religiously to say yes and please restart.When it comes back up, the updatemanager states that it will be applied at reboot. I ran init 6. It always states that a ...

smpatch analyze shows a few patches and no details on a system that was working fine and has had no new patches applied since last good smpatch analyze.This occurs on Solaris 10 both sparc and x64Solaris 8/9 don't seem affected by this.# smpatch analyze119254-09 119578-09 118822-20 119689-06 ...

I've installed bind 9.3 but when I use in.named -v cmmand,it still show me the bind version is 8.2.4how could I update my bind ? please help me to solve this probem ,it's very emergent .thank you !!!!!:(

Solaris 10 x86 User CommunityAs of November 29th, Sun will be changing its Solaris 10 patch access policy. Now that Solaris 10 is freely available, support services require the purchase of a Sun Service Plan.Under this new policy, access to patches is restricted. Security fixes and hardware ...

I'd like to see an option added to the analyze function which forces the output to be HTML-ized, and each patch needed is linked to the appropriate patch description on Sunsolve.Why - I have a cronjob which sends this output to an email address. It would be much more convenient to just need to ...

This is only an annoyance sympton. We have an Ultra-10 with 512 MB RAM and it takes about 7 minutes to apply a single small patch. In this case, no reboot was required.Looking at it while it runs, the java and listpatch commands are running intensively. Everything has been loaded so 393+ ...

These two patches should not be recommended for a host sun4u architecture.I never inspect the patches that are loaded since this is a toy machine. When all patches (others too) were applied, it reported unsuccessful runs on these two.Later I looked at the descriptions with Updatemanager and it ...

Has anyone seen an official published response from Sun on the problems encountered when trying to update a system with zones installed? I would like to know what their official recommendation is and when they intend on issuing a fix. There are many postings and discussions on this topic, but I ...

This patch would not apply using the updatemanager. When it was applied by itself, the process never completed over the night. I rebooted the machine.I downloaded the zip patch, extracted and then I shut it down in single-user mode to apply it. That was the only technique I knew. I did see ...

I follwed the Sun Update Connection instructions as posted and selected the patchadd method of installation. All three patches (119107-06 & it's pre-reqs) installed successfully. I now move to step 2 - register and there is no /usr/sbin/sconadm command on the box? HELP!Thanks!

Here are my scripts to patch machines with zones.The process is you run "do_patches".Then you make the machine as quiescent as possible ie shut down daemons etc.Then run "do_patches_crit".And rebootdo_patches:#!/bin/tcshsmpatch downloadcd /var/sadm/spoolgrep ')' `/bin/ls -tr patchpro_dnld* | ...

I have a system that is registered to use Sun Update Connection. Its registering just fine, and its even uploading its current information.The machine is missing a heck of a lot of patches, at least as far as "smpatch analyze" is concerned. However, in the update connection the system shows as ...

I've been down this road twice now.The first time I selected all patches and let it run - when the installation was complete, the computer would hang atInitializing SystemPlease wait . . .This time, I was more selective of the process in that:Selected security and recommended patches - ...

Ive got a trivial issue to report.Its not strictly an update manager issue but its in the ballpark :-).In the Solaris 10 patch report, 119213-06 is listed as a recommended patch.But in the recommended patch set readme, it isnt listed. And its not in the actual patch set either.It appears to ...

I have a V480 running Solaris 8 02/02 that I recently updated with the most currnet PROM OBP 4.18.2. Now the server is rebooting itself every night between 11pm and 1am. Sometimes it reboots once, sometimes twice or 3 times. There are no crons running that could cause this so I'm not sure what ...

Just getting my head around patching on Solaris 10. Could someone please briefly explain difference between the following:Sun Update ManagerSun Update connectionsSolaris 10 Patch managerAlso could someone advise wither or not it is possible set up a local patch repository on network get all ...