Solaris 9 Patch problems
Hello,
I am trying to patch a system that is running Solaris 9, and I'm having serious problems - all of the patches fail to install with a "pkgadd" error.
First, here's my /etc/release file:
Solaris 9 9/04 s9s_u7wos_09 SPARC
Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 29 June 2004
I noticed that the latest nawk patch (117067-05) was not installed, and in fact, no version of that patch was installed, and I know that this can cause problems as patchadd uses nawk to calculate patch dependencies and such, so I tried to apply that patch first. Here's what happened:
29# patchadd 117067-05
Checking installed patches...
Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...
Patch 117067-05 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd.
See /var/sadm/patch/117067-05/logfor details
Patchadd is terminating.
30# more /var/sadm/patch/117067-05/log
PaTcH_MsG 8 Version 11.9.0,REV=2002.04.06.15.27 of SUNWesu is not installed onthis system.
Dryrun complete.
No changes were made to the system.
31# pkginfo -l SUNWesu
PKGINST: SUNWesu
NAME: Extended System Utilities
CATEGORY: system
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 11.9.0,REV=2002.04.06.15.27
BASEDIR: /
VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DESC: additional UNIX system utilities, including awk, bc, cal, compress,
diff, dos2unix, last, rup, sort, spell, sum, uniq, and uuencode
PSTAMP: leo20061207142253
INSTDATE: Jan 26 2007 10:01
HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
STATUS: completely installed
FILES:142 installed pathnames
10 shared pathnames
20 linked files
14 directories
86 executables
2836 blocks used (approx)
So it won't install the patch because the SUNWesu package is not installed, yet pkginfo shows that it actuallyis installed.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Bill
