I typically invoke "updatemanager" remotely using Xwindows.I get this error message: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null charset name at java.nio.charset.Charset.lookup(Charset.java.378) at java.nio.charset.Charset.isSupported(Charset.java:407)I have applied a ...

When trying to log in I'm getting redirected to: http://sunconnection-3.sun.com:443/portal/loginFailed.faces1. I'm using exactly the same password that worked Friday2. The host sunconnection-3.sun.com doesn't exist in DNS.Any ideas?

I am trying to register a new Solaris 10 server in Update Connection. It doesn't have any X libraries installed, so I can't run updatemanager, and it is behind an authenticating proxy.It just does the following:# sconadm register -a -r /tmp/registrationprofile.propertiessconadm is ...

Can someone explain this and if it will change in the future. If so, when ca we expect it?First, I understand that the patchdiag.xref file is commonly more current than patchdb.zip (by a day) but that's not what I am talking about.I see across most hosts and OS versions patches that aren't ...

I'm running the CLI sconadm command to register a newly minted Solaris 10 installation (on old hardware). # sconadm register -a -r sconadm.profileException in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/cns/basicreg/BasicRegCLII've run "pkgchk -n" and everything comes up clean. What ...

Hi,We are currently experiencing an error when trying to use the Update Connection portal to manage updates on systems. Scheduled jobs all fail with the following error message:"Feature not available. We have experienced a system failure"Running update manager locally on the system works ...

I have a strange problem. I'm able to connect to Solaris box running solaris9 using my Xmanager as superuser. Where as all other normal users are not able to connect to the Solaris box using Xmanager but are able to use it by doing telnet to it and using in command mode.Why does this happen? ...

I manually installed the patch 118245-05. I didn't use the graphical actions since it was flagged as "download only". I shutdown the DS services and then ran it. I even rebooted. Everything LDAP-wise still works.I am using the Directory Server 5.2 which is patched to level 4. See patch set ...

I have just started using updatemanager to download and install my patches and found some issues I would like to discuss. First, the patch that updates the software to version 1.0.3 (121119-03) was not available on updatemanager itself. I found it on the sunsolve site by accident.Second, from ...

I installed 10 u1 (01/06) the other day. I ran the Update Manager and I *think* there were 8 patches, so I attempted to install them.Only one of them successfully installed (118966-12), six of them show up in /var/sadm/spool/disallwed_patch_list_report:STATUS INSTALL BEGIN 119076-10Transition ...

Hello,I've tried several versions of update manager, including theversion provided by patch 121453-02, to register our systems.It never worked.When I last tried, I used the CLI, using this RegistrationProfile.properties (comments from template ...

I'm using smpatch

Both Sun Update Manager and smpatch analyze list a x86 security patch on a SPARC system (E450).118669-05 J2SE 5.0_x86 update 6 patch, 64bitThe correct patches for SPARC might be 118666-04 J2SE 5.0: update 5 patch or 118667-04 J2SE 5.0: update 5 patch, ...

Hi all,I am trying to add a new system using sconadm, but it fails.Our username's password used to have the ! char in it, so I changed the passwd via our Sunsolve account so that it contained no chars incase it confused the sconadm, but it still goves the same error message. I can log into ...

Synopsis: Sun Update Connection Service MaintenanceStart Time: Sat 07 Jan 2006 08:00 Eastern Standard TimeEnd Time: Sat 07 Jan 2006 14:00 Eastern Standard TimeNOTICE AND END USER INSTRUCTIONSThe Sun Update Connection will undergo a routine maintenance Saturday, 07 Jan 2006 from 08:00 EST to ...

When downloading patchdb.zip, I get a truncated file right now:me@mymachine $ unzip -v patchdb.zip Archive: patchdb.zip LengthMethodSize RatioDateTimeCRC-32Name--- -----90 Defl:N62 31% 01-06-06 15:24 543b9af2 patchlist.properties0 Stored00% 01-06-06 15:24 00000000 patchlist.delimited-- --9062 ...

A Solaris 9 host was upgraded to Solaris 10 using the downloaded (blessed) 01/2006 release.When I ran "updatemanager" I will speculate that there are no patches to apply and that I am fully registered with our school contract.I get the message "Read Analysis Error".I had the impression that the ...

Hi,I have a Solaris 9 09/05 installed SPARC machine where i tried to install J2SE_Recommended_Patch Cluster.It contains OpenGL (32,64-bit) patchesId - 113886-32 and 113887-32 .When i tried to install them, it said "One or more patch packages included in113886-32 are not installed on this ...

I'm trying to use sconadm to register a machine.It is failing, which is not great, but what is most annoying is that I cannot get it to output any useful error message.All I get is:# sconadm register -a -r ./registrationProfile.propertiessconadm is runningAuthenticating user ...Exception in ...

This patch is very bad.It turned my V20z server (Solaris 10 3/05 plusall patches) un-bootable.Blue screen from Solaris primary boot systemjust state "Cannot find boot.bin"I suspect this patch should only be appliedto S10U1 1/06 systems. But UpdateManagerhappily applied it anyway to my 3/05 ...

Using the UM gui to manage my subscription, it will not accept my valid software support contract number (NK.....) as a valid key.The Update Manager manual plainly states: "subscription key can be the contract number for any of your Sun support contracts which include software support."How can ...

I have tested the Update Connection with a few machines for a while and it seems ok, but if I were to move all my machines to using Update Manager then I would need some sort of grouping similar machines together.Now it looks to me that everything is one big list.Is there any way to organize ...

What does Sun Update Connection offer that Ican't get by just using the 'smpatch' tool on Solaris?Besides telling Sun all about my machine and itsconfiguration?There are no screen shots or lists of specific concretefeatures on the web site. It's all very abstract, and I don't have time to ...

Wouldnt it be nice if we could see the patch READMEform the Installed Patches page by clicking on a patch if one doesnt remember the details fromthe patch id or synopsis ?That should be easy to do as all patch README'sare found on the local disk in ...

I think most would agree that a key benefit of the patch proxy is to have the patches locally, especially when the Sun patch site is unavailable.I found today that if my patch proxy server can't reach Sun, then all client requests fail trying to retrieve detectors.I would agree that it should ...

I have not been able to find anything to match this error that I am seeing - any advice?thanksDanJan 21 15:50:26 sunblade3 CNS Transport[412]: [ID 617356 daemon.error] Could not send message from queue: /var/tmp/cc-transport/CCTQueueStore/store/queues/REGISTRATION/registrationJan 21 15:54:26 ...

I'm getting this response to smpatch analyze on a SunFire V880 with Sol 8:...116962-09 SunOS 5.8: pcisch, pcipsy driver patchError: Requires a patch that could not be found...What requires the patch? Is it 116962-09 ?116962-09 has three dependencies all of which are either already installed or ...

We have a patch proxy setup to speed up installation of patches.But it struck me that downloading a patch for the first time to cache it is surprisingly slow.So I looked into it and observed that patch 113886-34 which was downloading at the time had taken 40 minutes to download about 25 Megs ...

I have initiated the installation of several patches and they are now showing as "In Progress". However they have been in this state now for several days. The system has been checking in regularly all this time. Why are the patches not being installed?

I have noticed that the ProxyUserName and ProxyPassword as defined in the registration file for sconadm appear as clear text in the Client Config Registry. Despite one needing root access to retrieve it is still appears to be a security problem. Any comments? It appears that each client ...

Dear Patch folks,we use smpatch to analyze and patch Solaris 8/SPARC systems. While running 'smpatch update' in MultiUser-mode a list of prohibited patches is generated in file /var/sadm/spool/disallowed_patch_list. We then use 'smpatch add -x idlist=/var/sadm/spool/disallowed_patch_list' ...

We're trying to run the standard updatemanager on our Ultra 20 running Solaris 10 x86. We've installed patches a number of times but we're hitting a wall with the recent kernel patch, 118844-28. This patch shows up as needing to be applied in both the updatemanager gui as well as when we run ...

Hello,I am newbie in Solaris administration.I installed Solaris 10 x86 release Jan 2006 (sol-10-u1-ga-x86-v*-iso.zip) and I can see and run Sun Update Manager.Do I need to install updateConnection-i386.zip also or it's the same as Update Manager included in Jan 2006 release? Thanks in ...

Hello again, I was running SUNWpsvrr and SUNWpsvru quite happily until my Live Upgrade to 0106 came along. Now those two packages seem to have missed the upgrade. Happily, I can go back to 0305 and keep my 20 other machines patched. Where can I actually *find* the package to download and ...

on jan 25 117461-04 was installed via 'smpatch update' and it seems to have removed the pkginfo file for the package SUNWcslr. Now, when I try and add patches I get:root@vcs02:[spool]$ smpatch add -i 121693-02add patch 121693-02Cannot open pkginfo file /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWcslr/pkginfoValidating ...

Hi guys,I have done fresh installed of solaris10 on SunSparcV240 Server & Downloaded X11vnc sunfreeware.com & did pkgadd ,now x11vnc is there in my /usr/local/bin but when i run ./x11vnc i am geting following error.06/02/2006 17:02:29 x11vnc version: 0.7pre lastmod: 2004-12-2306/02/2006 ...

The Sun Update Connection Client, Version 1.0.4 is now available as software update121118-05 (SPARC version located at http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-121118-05-1) or 121119-05 (x86 located at http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-121119-05-1). This ...

Patch 119578-15 takes forever to apply. The host was killed and the patch was downloaded by hand and installed in single-user mode from boot up.I suspect that a process (FMD) would never cease so patching could begin. I don't know what FMD is but I waited long enough to let updatemanger try to ...

I tried via smatch and actually manually downloading the jar file.When I extract it (jar -xvf 119850-13.jar) I get:Error! CRCs do not match!Do I need to create a case for it ? TIA...

Hello,I've got Solaris 10 on x86_64.with zones and problem with 120536-08 patch which `smpatch analyze` claims need to be installed.This patch tries to update following packages which are not (any of them) on my system:Package SUNWxf86 from directory SUNWxf86 in patch 120536-08 is not ...

Just finished installing Solaris 10 (3/05) on my brand new Sun Blade 1500. I then downloaded the latest version of Sun Update Connection, but the installer fails as follows: # ./installUpdateConnectionAdding patch 119574-02Validating patches...Loading patches installed on the ...

I'm new to Solaris so please bear with me.I just received a shipment of Ultra 20 workstations and while setting up one of them, I used the Update manager to install all the patches. After installing the kernel update, X fails to run since the Nvidia module doesn't load, which makes sense ...

My company is still installing and using Tarantella 3.42.947 and we are migrating from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9. The installer for Solaris 8 will not work on Solaris 9. Is there someone who can send me or direct me to a place where I can get a copy of the Solaris 9 installer for this oldver ...

Important Notice: Sun Update Connection has updated the certificates we use to secure our communication channels. To ensure continued service, you will need to apply a special software update before February 23, 2006.The specific patch IDs are:122231-01 (Solaris SPARC) - ...

Spmatch analyze has stopped working on one of our servers for no apparent reason.It happens to be the local patch proxy.That functionality is still working so ironically it can patch other machines, just not itselfThe following errors appear in /var/adm/messagesFeb 27 10:35:31 cracow CNS ...

Hi all,this post aims on echoing customers'feedback.from customers'experience it seems that smpatch from patch manager tool is suffering of a lack of reliability.One of them moved to a new freeware called PCA-Patch Check Advanced http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/From PCA Web Site we can ...

Has anyone seen this?About 10 days ago I selected some patches for installation on my Solaris 10 U1 x86 machine and as usual they were scheduled to be downloaded in about one hour.I have been doing this since I got Update Connection access and it always worked fine. I don't know what happened ...

I installed updatemanager on a Solaris 10 Sparc machine last night and did a few updates. I rebooted the box after the updates and have been unable to get it to run since. It begins analysing, gets about halfway through and then stops and stays that way for a long time. It is using processor ...

Hi, I have the next error with update manager:Unexpected Failure: java.lang.Exception: Sequencer failed.the same error apears when I try to use smpatch or "check Updates" in the gui.The logs files look like this:smpatch analyze -C patchpro.log.level=3 -C patchpro.debug=trueEffective proxy host ...

I tried out the Sun Update Connection web interface. Seems neat, but I'm get the following error message for every patch I try to install this way:Unrecognized I18N key: "swup.server.smpatch.". Please contact Sun Support for comment explanationI installed patch 122231-01 before I attempted ...