From: Tim Chipman (chipman@ecopiabio.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2005 - 16:58:41 EST
Hi all,
A merry question relating to patching & packages, which is the source of
some joy here for me. Any insight/comments or experience with this
problem .. would be appreciated.
Context:
-Solaris 8 release 7/01 on an e450 4x400mhz 2gigs ram
-Oracle 8i installed & running as "development" platform for database
environment
-Attempting to install Oracle 10g client locally
-Oracle client installer verifies system prior to proceeding with install
-complains that patch 108921-16 is absent, "failed", exits installer. No
workaround on this.
-verify patches on this system, determine that
....108921 line of patches have never been installed
....package, SUNWdtwm, that this patch .. patches .. IS installed
....another patch, 109169-12, IS installed, which has a required
dependency of 108921 (!?) so somewhat odd side-issue(?)
....attempts to install 108921-23 (latest version of this patch) exit
with error,
"One or more patch packages included in 108921-23 are not installed on
this system.
[exact console output is shown below for reference]
-attempts to install slightly less recent version of 108921 (such as ver
-16, as required by the Ora10g client) - also fail in same manner.
-for reference, 2 other neighbour systems (both solaris8, one is e450,
other is e3500)
both have patch 108921 present, as well as SUNWdtwm package. All have
been maintained more-or-less in parallel,
ie, jumbo-patch-clusters applied ~3-4x annually to all systems, at the
same time..
Does anyone have thoughts as to,
-how to encourage this patch to install?
-ever seen this before? ideas on workaround?
-.... ??
All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
--Tim Chipman
===paste===
CONTRAST, FOR REFERENCE: [a machine that is not a problem]
sapio, tells us:
sapio# showrev -p | grep "Patch: 108921"
Patch: 108921-13 Obsoletes: Requires: 108652-19 Incompatibles:
Packages: SUNWdtwm
NOW - THE PROBLEM MACHINE:
HELIOS - doesn't have this patch, but DOES have something that depends
on it ?!?!
helios# showrev -p | grep -i 108921
Patch: 109169-12 Obsoletes: Requires: 108921-02 Incompatibles:
Packages: SUNWdtdte, SUNWdtezt, SUNWdtmaz, SUNWdthez
[ie, no other output returned - patch 108921 is not present in any form
apparently?!]
Verify: Helios, definitely has the package which is patched by patch
108921:
helios# pkginfo | grep -i SUNWdtwm
system SUNWdtwm CDE DESKTOP WINDOW MANAGER
Definitely has the required pre-req patch for 108921, that being listed
as patch 108652:
helios# showrev -p | grep "Patch: 108652" ....
Patch: 108652-84 Obsoletes: 110499-03 Requires: Incompatibles:
Packages: SUNWxwfnt, SUNWxwice, SUNWxwplt, SUNWxwacx, SUNWxwicx, SUNWxwplx
Helios: WILL NOT install patch 108921, as shown below:
[cd /var/spool/patch, where the downloaded patch was expanded / prepped]
helios# patchadd ./108921-23
Checking installed patches...
One or more patch packages included in
108921-23 are not installed on this system.
Patchadd is terminating.
Try to force it, less politely:
helios# patchadd -u ./108921-23
Checking installed patches...
One or more patch packages included in
108921-23 are not installed on this system.
Patchadd is terminating.
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