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I have a Solaris 9 system that insists on downloading patches via
PatchPro that have already been installed.

Any idea why this is happening, and if possible, how to correct the problem?
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Dave Ockwell-Jenner
Solar Nexus Solutions
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Quote:>  I have a Solaris 9 system that insists on downloading patches via
>  PatchPro that have already been installed.

>  Any idea why this is happening, and if possible, how to correct the problem?

Same PatchPro problem here.

I've tried using the signed java applet at SunSolve instead, which suggested
only the following patches:

114127-01
113072-05
114369-01
114132-01
113026-05
112785-15

, but installing any of them fails:

# cat /var/sadm/patch/114127-01/log

This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture and
version of a package which is already installed.  This installation
will attempt to overwrite this package.

/root/114127-01/SUNWarc/install/checkinstall: /root/114127-01/SUNWarc/install/checkinstall: cannot open
pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
Dryrun complete.
No changes were made to the system.

Any ideas?

- Sebastian
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Sebastian Jaenicke                                   Disce aut discede!
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I'm also experiencing this problem, but only in the last couple of
weeks.  I'm guessing it might be a server side issue or something, i'm
using the Europe server - but i think it's a Sun-ism.  'Tis a pain,
thats for sure.

Sorry i cant help
Ade

|/root/114127-01/SUNWarc/install/checkinstall:
|/root/114127-01/SUNWarc/install/checkinstall: cannot open
|pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
|Dryrun complete.

Fix your permissions:
        http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2/Q5.59.html

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Quote:>  Fix your permissions:
>    http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2/Q5.59.html

Permissions were ok (all patch-related files readable for nobody),
but adding the "install" user solved the problem for me. Thanks.

So far I've installed all needed patches according to what the
small java applet at SunSolve reports, but "pprosvc -d" insists
on downloading more of them, beginning with 112941-04 (already
installed), even patches for packages not installed on the system.

- Sebastian

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Sebastian Jaenicke                                   Disce aut discede!
whois pgpkey-18AC0BE4 -h whois.ripe.net|perl -ne's-^certif: +--&&print'