smpatch problems

From: Christoph Litauer (litauer@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: Mon Jun 28 2004 - 07:22:16 EDT


Dear admins,

I am trying to use smpatch (and pprosvc) for a SPARC/Solaris9 machine.
Using pprosvc -i I got the following output:

ray1:/ # pprosvc -i

Assessing patches needed for your system...
.............
Retrieved patch list...
Downloading patches to /var/sadm/spool...
.
Installing patches from /var/sadm/spool...
.

Wondering why the system doesn't require any patch for about 10 weeks
now, I tried

ray1:/ # smpatch download -i 116663-01

Requested patches:

     116663-01

Downloading the requested patches
null
java.lang.NullPointerException
         at
com.sun.patchpro.patch.PatchImpl.setPatchContents(PatchImpl.java:161)
         at com.sun.patchpro.patch.PatchImpl.<init>(PatchImpl.java:45)
         at com.sun.patchpro.patch.PatchImpl.<init>(PatchImpl.java:38)
         at
com.sun.patchpro.patch.PatchAccumulator.<init>(PatchAccumulator.java:54)
         at
com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProModel.getPatchAccumulator(PatchProModel.java:1107)
         at
com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProModel.getPatchAccumulator(PatchProModel.java:1172)
         at
com.sun.patchpro.cli.SMPatchServices.downloadPatches(SMPatchServices.java:1712)
         at
com.sun.patchpro.cli.SMPatchServices.main(SMPatchServices.java:719)

Is this a bug in smpatch or am I doing something wrong?

-- 
Regards
Christoph Litauer
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