In <1132692113.745180.61360@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com> "Tim Bradshaw" <tfb+google@tfeb.org> writes:

>I have a machine running Solaris 10 3/05 and have at some point
>installed the fancy GUI update manager thingy. This all worked fine
>for months, but now it has mysteriously broken. It lists a bunch of
>patches which need a reboot to install (with a hyphen), which it has
>done before. I reboot the machine (with init 6, the proper way) but
>those patches don't actually get installed. This has definitely worked
>in the past: something has got wedged I guess. The patches have been
>downloaded.

Applying patches during shutdown was broken by a patch and fixed by a
subsequent patch. Patch 121086-02 (SPARC) is the one that fixes the
problem. The x86 equivalent is 121087-02. Curiously, these patches
are marked interactive, which means that `smpatch update' won't apply
them. `smpatch add -i' will apply them. No interaction is required.
I don't know how the GUI handles this situation.


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-Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-