Cannot Install

Solaris 10 X86 03/05 installed on Dell 2600.

Downloaded software.

Unzipped software.

Attempted to install:

# ls

installUpdateConnection patches

# ./installUpdateConnection

Adding patch 119575-01

Validating patches...

Loading patches installed on the system...

Done!

Loading patches requested to install.

Done!

Checking patches that you specified for installation.

Done!

Approved patches will be installed in this order:

119575-01

Checking installed patches...

Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...

Patch 119575-01 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd.

See /var/sadm/patch/119575-01/log for details

Patchadd is terminating.

# more /var/sadm/patch/119575-01/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.

/home/bkg/updateConnection/patches/119575-01/SUNWcsu/install/checkinstall: /home

/bkg/updateConnection/patches/119575-01/SUNWcsu/install/checkinstall: cannot ope

n

pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully

Dryrun complete.

No changes were made to the system.

Please advise.

[1384 byte] By [bgrossman] at [2007-11-26 6:02:59]
# 1
Could be a permissions problem. Try copying the update connection bits to/tmp and installing from there.-Dave
rave@sun at 2007-7-6 13:27:04 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...
# 2
I have the same problem, and I have tried a su- before installing, and copying to another directory... (/tmp and another, /TESTNo luck so far... :(/DA
DonAndrews at 2007-7-6 13:27:04 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...
# 3
somewhere between / and where you unzipped the file you are not allowing world r x (read/exec)userid nobody needs to be able to run the checkinstall script on one or more patches so it needs to be able to get in there ;-)
jwbledsoe at 2007-7-6 13:27:04 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...
# 4
Did you copy the uncompressed patch or the zip file to /tmp? Youneed to copy the zip file to /tmp and then as root do the uncompress and install.
rave@sun at 2007-7-6 13:27:04 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...
# 5
I can't get it to install either: I'm using a clean install of Solaris 10 on a Blade 2000 as su and get the same error messages as bgrossman. I've gone overboard and set 777 permissions on both the initial download and on the unzipped files.
tomorackle11510 at 2007-7-6 13:27:04 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...
# 6
Have a look at http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=275&threadID=24768Simply move the download to the /tmp file and re-run it. Worked for me!
tomorackle11510 at 2007-7-6 13:27:04 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...