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I just downloaded pca and tried to use it.

I said ./pca -d -a

It downloaded about twenty patches and then the downloads started
failing. I hit ^c and checked my disk space. I had plenty of space left.

How do I troubleshoot this?

Richard B. gilbert <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
> I said ./pca -d -a
>
> It downloaded about twenty patches and then the downloads started
> failing. I hit ^c and checked my disk space. I had plenty of space left.

Do you have just a plain Sun Online Account, or is it connected to a
Sun Service Plan ($$$) ? For Solaris 10, you will not be able to
download all patches unless you have a Sun Service Plan, and it's
connected to your Sun Online Account. You can verify this on the
SunSolve web page ("Edit Account", after logging in).

Try "./pca -d -a missings". It should successfully download all missing
security patches; these are available without a Sun Service Plan.

You can always run pca with its "-V" option to generate debug output.
It will show you how and why wget fails. Feel free to send me the
debug output by e-mail for further investigation.

mp.
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Systems Administrator | Institute of Scientific Computing | Univ. of Vienna
| http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/
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In article <45DE0F89.2030503@comcast.net>,
Richard B. gilbert <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
>It downloaded about twenty patches and then the downloads started
>failing. I hit ^c and checked my disk space. I had plenty of space left.
>
>How do I troubleshoot this?

Which downloads failed?

Can you download them via SunSolve?

Don Grantham and company's Sun Update Connection (SUC) machinery
is currently serving some zero length patches.
119955 03 < 04 --- 1 CDE 1.6: Tooltalk Runtime patch for Solaris 10
123324 01 < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10: sshd patch
125016 01 < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10: audit and init patch
125037 -- < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10: MPT driver patch
125430 -- < 01 --- 1 SunOS 5.10: scp patch

119686 09 < 10 R-- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: svc.startd patch
119956 02 < 03 --- 1 CDE 1.6_x86: Tooltalk Runtime patch for Solaris 10
124255 01 < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: sockfs patch
124925 -- < 01 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: vold patch
125017 01 < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: audit and init patch
125038 -- < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: MPT driver patch
125431 -- < 01 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: scp patch
125433 -- < 01 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: proc.h patch

For what its worth, I've reported the x86 patches to SunSolve
via the Feedback form.

John
groenveld@acm.org

John D Groenveld wrote:
> In article <45DE0F89.2030503@comcast.net>,
> Richard B. gilbert <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>It downloaded about twenty patches and then the downloads started
>>failing. I hit ^c and checked my disk space. I had plenty of space left.
>>
>>How do I troubleshoot this?
>
>
> Which downloads failed?
>
> Can you download them via SunSolve?

I don't have a contract so the failing patches were probably ones I
would have to pay for.

I've decided that the better/cheaper approach is to buy a new media kit
and reinstall. That should get me up to within a couple of months of
being current. . . .

On Feb 24, 12:50 pm, groen...@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) wrote:
> In article <45DE0F89.2030...@comcast.net>,
> Richard B. gilbert <rgilber...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >It downloaded about twenty patches and then the downloads started
> >failing. I hit ^c and checked my disk space. I had plenty of space left.
> >How do I troubleshoot this?

-V helps to some degree

> Which downloads failed?
> Can you download them via SunSolve?
> Don Grantham and company's Sun Update Connection (SUC) machinery
> is currently serving some zero length patches.
> 119955 03 < 04 --- 1 CDE 1.6: Tooltalk Runtime patch for Solaris 10
> 123324 01 < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10: sshd patch

Actually I see words to the effect that the patch simply isnt THERE at
all : /
Even though Sunsolve has a size for the link.

> 125016 01 < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10: audit and init patch
> 125037 -- < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10: MPT driver patch
> 125430 -- < 01 --- 1 SunOS 5.10: scp patch
> 119686 09 < 10 R-- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: svc.startd patch
> 119956 02 < 03 --- 1 CDE 1.6_x86: Tooltalk Runtime patch for Solaris 10
> 124255 01 < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: sockfs patch
> 124925 -- < 01 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: vold patch
> 125017 01 < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: audit and init patch
> 125038 -- < 02 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: MPT driver patch
> 125431 -- < 01 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: scp patch
> 125433 -- < 01 --- 1 SunOS 5.10_x86: proc.h patch
> For what its worth, I've reported the x86 patches to SunSolve
> via the Feedback form.

FWIW?
Lately if screw us happen on a Friday they dont get fixed until late
Monday or Tuesday.
Heck we wouldnt want to PAGE anyone on a WEEKEND to fix something
they buggered up.
Especially when a weekend is a good time to get up to date with
patches for many customer sites.
That whole project is a rudderless ship and Capt. WrongWay PeachFuzz
seems to be at the helm : <