We're using 112945-40 on all of our Solaris 9 systems. smpatch and pprosvc work fine on all but one of the systems.On one system, we are suddenly getting a "Connection Reset" error when trying to run either of the following commands: smpatch analyze pprosvc -lThere are no firewalls that could ...

Just did scratch installs of the latest Solaris 9 CD images on two Sun Fire V210 systems. Installed patch 112945-40 on both machines. Ran the commandssmpatch updateinit 6smpatch add -x idlist=/var/sadm/spool/disallowed_patch_listinit 6iteratively until no more new patches were applied. On both ...

Hello,Could someone please post a list of required packages to register a LPS using sconadm through an http proxy. I am using a 6/06 sparc build based on the "Reduced Network Core" cluster. I cannot find the info in any documentation and not everybody installs every package on the distribution ...

I have installed S10 6/06 on an e450 and have added the patchserver patch/packages.Configured the patchserver and registered it with sun update connection.I can get the e450 to download and cache patches if I set the update proxy URL to" http://localhost:3816/solaris." and run updatemanager to ...

Hi, I was trying to install the latest patches on a solaris 10 sparc system through updatemanager but it would always produce errors. I eventually went to /var/sadm/spool, unziped one of the patches, and runpatchadd 119578-24but I got something like Pkgadd failed. See ...

If I didn't want to be a Connected Customer and didn't want to run the Auto updater what steps should I take?I did try to remove the SUNWupdatemgru package (and related cronjobs) but this didn't seem to stop the plethoria of java processes from being started and hanging around slowing down ...

I do not even know where to start. Since installing Solaris 10 0606 itseems every time I try to patch the system I get failures of one typeor another. One problem today has to do with zones:"To install the new instance of this package in all zones you mustfirst remove the existing instance of ...

We purchased a bunch of Solaris Basic Service Plans, which start with CWP letters. I'm having real trouble linking them to my online account. When I submitted them via sunsolve online account -> Link my support contracts to my online account, i got email from ...

Hey,I have some issues with SUC. Somehow the "smpatch update" starts working fine but for awhile nothing progresses anymore and the update process is doing nothing. This is a S10U2 SPARC system, freshly installed.Here are the details:# smpatch ...

This is our first Solaris 10 install - all of our other systems are Solaris 8.Release is:#cat /etc/releaseSolaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARCCopyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Use is subject to license terms.Assembled 09 June 2006The registration ...

Hello,I would like to apologize if this topic has been covered already...The Sun Update Connection reports that Solaris 8 and 9 should be supported but at the moment Sun Update Manager is only for Solaris 10.Sun Patch Manager download page says this product will be replaced by the new Sun ...

hi dear members! I am trying to register my sun box throuh sconadm but i got these error. And sconadm freez here is the message which i got.bash-3.00# sconadm register -a -r RegistrationProfile.propertiessconadm is runningAuthenticating user ...Exception in thread "main" ...

Does this error case look familiar? A proxy host and port was specifiedin /tmp/myreg.profile but it appears to be a network problem.Any advice would be appreciated.burl-v445-1[51] sconadm register -a -r /tmp/myreg.profilesconadm is runningAuthenticating user ...failed registration!On the ...

HI,I have a SunUC proxy server that gets its updates directly from Sun updates web site and several SunUC clients configured to have my SunUC proxy server as source of updates.My understanding from reading the available documentation is that SunUC clients should get their updates from the local ...

I no longer see the sizes for the individual patches when I invoke the GUI updatemanager. The patching still works.I have been patching today on various hosts and noticed it. I don't think that I have changed preferences/settings.

This is a re-post of the topic forumID=292&threadID=103584.Brief summary: Two different users report independently the following problem after the installation of PatchManager 2.0 on their Solaris 8/sparc box:# smpatch analyzeRealization integrity checks failedNo patches required.### ...

Hi all,I just tried to install the J2SE Solaris 9 Recommented Patch Cluster, while, when it come to install the patch 113886-38, 113887-38, it got an an error message:*********************************************************************Installing 113886-38...Checking installed patches...One or ...

I have something odd going on with my system. It's an Ultra 20 running the latest version of Solaris (6/06). I've been keeping it up to date with SUC, and the other night (9/12) there were some new patches. The only one I remember was a large update of the Xorg package (it was several ...

Hi - I am building many servers using jumpstart, I want to autoregister using autoRegistrationProfile.xm.I have created a autoRegistrationProfile.xm by enabling auto registration on another host but my machines never seem to get auto registered until I run /usr/lib/cc-ccr/bin/eraseCCRRepository ...

Hi,I noticed that recently strange empty files are being created in the home directory of the root account on my solaris 10 servers that have Sun Update Manager installed. Here is a typical list:t# ls -ltotal 2-rw-r--r--1 rootroot0 Sep 1 14:28 090010200-rw-r--r--1 rootroot0 Sep 3 14:28 ...

Last week, I used Update Manager to install several patches on my Ultra 10 that had a 9 GB disk. This is when I initially registered my system when I opened Update Manager for the first time. Then a few days ago, I upgraded my system to a larger disk and did a fresh install of OS 10 ...

Last week, after installing some of the various patches availablevia smpatch/updatemanager, two of our machines (one sparc, one x86)began to regularly fail to be able to retrieve patches. And /var/adm/messagescontained exceptions for example:Sep 14 16:30:04 altair root: [ID 702911 user.crit] ...

What is the latest news on using updatemanager on a system thathas multiple zones? The patches for the Sun Studio product needto be installed using the -G option to patchadd, but updatemanagercan't figure that out.We've got a frustrated user over in this ...

I have two new Solaris 10 6/06 systems here that are not checking in with the Update Connection.Looking in /var/log/swupas/swupas.log I see this -Swup Agent run: Monday, 25 September 2006 11:31:29 BST** DEBUG ON **Attempt to get exclusive lock: 1We have the lock!prepare to register with ...

Hi,Is there a way to disable the prompt for userid and password when using smpatch in remote mode? Based on what I read, it seems that it is not possible unless one uses -l and -p options of smpatch.Reason: I would like to create a cronjob that will do a remote smpatch update in several SunUC ...

The Sun Update Connection System client, version 1.0.8 is now available assoftware update 121118-08 (SPARC) or 121119-08 (x86). Version 1.0.8is the biggest update we have produced since the initial release of the Sun UpdateConnection and includes the following enhancements:o Sun Update Manager ...

When running 'smpatch analyze' or 'smpatch update', what is the difference when using the following values?patchpro.patchset=currentorpatchpro.patchset=patchdb

On solaris 9 hosts the value of patchpro.patchset appears to default to patchdb1.This has recently stopped working with error patchdb1: not found at https://updateserver.sun.com/solaris/But changing patchpro.patchset to patchdb gets it to work again.Strangely, solaris10 hosts appear to have a ...

Hi,I have a newly installed system (SPARC/6-06) that I am unable to register. When runningsconadm register -a -r sconadm.register -e softwareUpdatethe command just sits there and never comes back.I have tried to verify the connection with /usr/lib/cc-cfw/platform/transport/bin/cctrunner -pand ...

Hi forum,I have scheduled a few update jobs on a system with a zone configured.The problem was, that the zone itself was unable to boot because its root-FS was unavailable.So the update process wasn't able to start and update the zone.The end effect is now, that the 8 updates were applied to ...

Hi All!118833-23 has a problem on Solaris 10 with zones:# init 6# svc.startd: The system is coming down. Please wait.svc.startd: 80 system services are now being stopped.Installing update 118833-23 Failed..............> less disallowed_patch_list_report..............Patching zone ...

Greetings,Customer referencing Alert 102178:"Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes for Australia (2006), United States (2007) and Others"5. ResolutionThe "U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005" which goes into effect in 2007 is addressed in the following releases:SPARC Platform* Solaris 8 with patches ...

Has anyone seen this?Installing update 118855-19WARNING: Module verification failed for /kernel/crypto/amd64/des.WARNING: des _init: crypto_register_provider() failed (0x50)WARNING: Module verification failed for /kernel/crypto/amd64/arcfour.WARNING: _init: ...

Recently our local patch server stop working correctly.It could have been after we upgraded to 1.0.8Anyway what its doing is it starts downloading patches to /var/sadm/spool/patchsrv/Patches as a .jar.tmp file as normal.But after downloading it instead of renaming it to a .jar file, it deletes ...

I used sconadm to register a new server. I used the Sun Update Manager GUI to analyze the system and download 246 updates. When these attempt to get installed, all the patches error out with the following: "ERROR: Failed to validate the digital signature(s)".I can install the patches one at a ...

Hmmm, wondering whether PatchPro or the Service at all is broken again. Using S10 06/06 - last succesfull applied patches last week, which included AFAIK the 1.0.8 patches:elkner.hathor ~ > setenv LC_ALL Celkner.hathor ~ > + smpatch downloadUpdate 123252-01 will not be downloaded since it ...

Hmmm, since SUN still ships brain dead *.la files, which will certainly break compilation of other related software when libfool is used, I wanna remove all the *.la files. However rm -f does not work, since patches usually re-install those file :(. So I would try to removef them. Would this ...

I have a "patchsvr" set up under sol10 1/06 with patch 121118-08 applied. It has all the default settings except for a different Cache Location. I have a fresh sol10 6/06 install with zero patches applied, with default settings except for being pointed at my "patchsvr" proxy.If I try to use the ...

Just yesterday, i installed a fresh Solaris 10 x86 onto some pc hardware. After getting solaris installed and issues with my network card, i downloaded and installed the free version of the update manager 1.0.x. Next, i proceeded to update all the general patches for the solaris 10 system. I ...

Hi!Background: I'm an experienced Linux admin who's trying to install Solaris on a Sun Fire V100, rather than just manage badly installed systems that other people did in the past. The machine needs Solaris 9 because it is a test for a production machine which is running Solaris 9 too.What ...

I just tried to install this patch along with the Sun Update Connection System Client 1.0.8 patch and I see in the Installation Complete window this:122761-01SunOS 5.10: Sun Update Connection Bootstrapper FailedUtility used to install the update failed with exit code {0}.This occurred using ...

Some patches report on installation with smpatch The patch 119252-13 makes the kernel unstable, is obsolete or is forbidden by policy. The patch 119280-07 makes the kernel unstable, is obsolete or is forbidden by policy.Theres nothing particularly noteworthy mentioned about the patches in their ...

I am getting error messages below on all Solaris 10 305 boxes that I am patching via 'smpatch update' :This collection of patches is incomplete due to problems in downloading. It is advisable to retry the download later and see if the remaining patches can be downloaded. If they can, then the ...

I setup a server running 10 1/06 to act as a proxy server:# hostnamensx401l9420# patchsvr setup -lPatch source URL: https://getupdates.sun.com/solarisCache Location: /var/sadm/spool/patchsvrWeb proxy host name: toaster.bcbsm.comWeb proxy port number: 80Web proxy user: e119519I configured ...

Hi All,I have experienced the failures of patch command. There is no any hint or instruction to do next. The patch description doesn't say any patch dependency. Not just one patchadd, another patchadd failed.Does anyone have any suggestion to do what next?Thanks//Sunbreak The command error ...

using smpatch or updatemanager i get file update errors when i try to change the proxy username or password.eg. smpatch set patchpro.proxy.user=userName1Exception in thread "main" com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchPropertyException: IO Error: Unable to access the 1 file.at ...

smpatch after a patch server doesn't work anymore, even with all I read here.After I update (smpatch directly from sun) my patchsrv host, even patchserv doesn't want to start :# /etc/init.d/patchserver stopShutting down Local Patch Server/usr/sbin/patchsvr: /usr/apache/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh: ...

smpatch analyze always give me this patch to install.It's seems link to SUNWscn-base package new in solaris 06/06my server is a solaris 01/06 was all the patch, never heard about this package.What is this Sun Network Connection stuff coming with solaris 06/06 ?And what should I do with this ...

I get the following error when I run smpatch analyze:Failure: Cannot connect to retrieve Database/current.zip: Connection resetI was successfully able to register the system, but keep getting this error with smpatch analyze. I snooped the traffic and saw packets to & from ...

HiI have been getting to grips with the sun update software over the last 2 days.In about a years time I see that the cache of downloaded patches will have a great deal of obsolete downloads.While my servers arent in production I wanted to check how I can clear the cache of updates downloaded ...