Sun Update Connection Not working
Hello, I have multiple clients running solaris 10. I used to be able to download updates using the update manager. Lately, when I select a patch from the list and click on install, it shows me a window with install status and nothing happens. I kept that running for over 10 hours but no luck. I'm not able to cancel the process either. When I click on cancel, it says "cancelling..." and nothing happens. Only way I can close it by xkilling the GUI. I'm having the same problem on other Solaris 10 clients. I checked my network connections and everything is fine. I didn't use any subscription key when I registered my clients and used different login information to register couple clients where I'm having the same issue.
Any idea why its not working?
Thanks
Sharif
# 1
Let me guess, you added a zone to the machine.Known problem. It doesnt work on machines with zones.There is a work around, involving smpatch download and a script to do patchadd on all the downloaded patches which I posted in a similar thread a few weeks ago.
# 4
Thanks for all the feedback. All the clients are now working fine. I didn't have to change anything. Just click on install updates and started downloading / installing.
The other machine with zone installed, I uninstalled it and still didn't work. After deleting the zone usng the zonecfg, its working fine.
Thanks again,
Sharif Rizal
# 6
From the FAQ at - http://www.sun.com/service/sunupdate/faq.html
Q.
Can I use Sun Update Connection 1.0, System Edition on a Solaris 10 system that has zones installed?
A.
Yes, but Sun Update Connection only provides partial support for systems that have non-global zones installed.
* Supports the sconadm, smpatch analyze, and smpatch download commands, and the Sun Update Manager registration and analysis features in the global zone only.
The Sun Update Connection web application, the Sun Update Manager application, and the smpatch analyze command can be used to perform an update analysis of the global zone.
* Does not support the smpatch update, smpatch add, and smpatch remove commands, or the install and remove features of the Sun Update Manager application or the Sun Update Connection web application.
Note that you can use the patchadd and patchrm commands to install and remove updates from global zones as well as from non-global zones. The patchadd and patchrm commands fully support Solaris 10 systems that have zones installed.
# 9
Another option is to install the patches manually. While the GUi won't work at all the commandline tools still have some options left, apart from the install command.
So, you could easily use "smpatch analyze" to get a list of patches, save this in a file and then tell smpatch to download the patches manually (-x idlist=...) after which you can unpack the .jar files (located in /var/sadm/spool) and apply them using patchadd.
LionO at 2007-7-6 13:29:11 >
