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#1 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 06:57 AM

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.

is there anything I can do (with smpatch? a hammer?) to unwedge the
bloody thing and get it to actually install the patches?

Thanks

--tim

#2 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 06:57 AM

On 22/11/05 8:41, in article
1132692113.745180.61360@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.c om, "Tim Bradshaw"
<tfb+google@tfeb.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> is there anything I can do (with smpatch? a hammer?) to unwedge the
> bloody thing and get it to actually install the patches?

I had this problem too and it went away mysteriously. What might have helped
is using smpatch to install a patch that 'smpatch analyze' listed, and then
rebooting properly afterwards.

Then again the chicken I sacrificed might also have helped.

Cheers,

Chris

#3 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 06:57 AM

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.

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

#4 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 06:58 AM

Gary Mills wrote:

> 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.

This seems to be it. Thanks!

--tim

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