Solaris 10, updates, now NO updates?

Hi All,

I ran the update client on solaris, to find out whether there
were new updates, It found 2 new updates,

1) UPdate client software
2) Apache update - 19Meg

I selected only the update client.. It downloaded, installed. No
problem. I closed the update client program and ran it again, to see
that it was indeed a newer version.

Clicked on "Check for updates".. 0 found

Where has the Apache update gone? I am not too concerned about apache,
my concern is, what if its overlooking critical updates in the future
in this manner.

Any thoughts?

Alex <yep@yep.yep> wrote:[color=blue]
> Clicked on "Check for updates".. 0 found[/color]

It seems to be quite common that update manager doesn't give
consistent results.
[color=blue]
> Where has the Apache update gone? I am not too concerned about apache,
> my concern is, what if its overlooking critical updates in the future
> in this manner.[/color]

Get PCA (see signature for the link). You can ask that for a second
opinion about which patches are missing on your system.

mp.
--
Systems Administrator | Institute of Scientific Computing | Univ. of Vienna
| [url]http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/[/url]
Patch Check Advanced | Analyze, download and install patches for Sun Solaris

"Martin Paul" <map@par.univie.ac.at> wrote in message
news:452cba29$0$11352$3b214f66@usenet.univie.ac.at...[color=blue]
> Alex <yep@yep.yep> wrote:[color=green]
> > Clicked on "Check for updates".. 0 found[/color]
>
> It seems to be quite common that update manager doesn't give
> consistent results.
>[color=green]
> > Where has the Apache update gone? I am not too concerned about apache,
> > my concern is, what if its overlooking critical updates in the future
> > in this manner.[/color]
>
> Get PCA (see signature for the link). You can ask that for a second
> opinion about which patches are missing on your system.
>
> mp.
> --
> Systems Administrator | Institute of Scientific Computing | Univ. of[/color]
Vienna[color=blue]
> | [url]http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/[/url]
> Patch Check Advanced | Analyze, download and install patches for Sun[/color]
Solaris

Hey, you wrote that. Great job.
I tried it and you are correct it does nicely, using it now on an Ultra60
running Solaris 5.9.

Generally I find that Suns patching process works. We've around 200 Solaris
8/9/10 systems, both x86 and sparc and smpatch and updatemanager works
without problem. The majority of the systems have a Sun support contract
which may help.

But, on occasion the whole process goes tits up. I spent most of yesterday
trying to patch a V240 running Sol10 with one non-local zone. Both smpatch
and updatemanager were flakey, presenting different patches and refused to
apply patches (such as 118833-24) which later I applied by hand without
error or warning. But in the end two patches, 122761-01 and 123252-01 would
not apply. 122761 fails with...

The following requested patches have packages not installed on the system
Package SUNWswupcl from directory SUNWswupcl in patch 122761-01 is not
installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWswupcl will not be applied
to the system.
Package SUNWswupclr from directory SUNWswupclr in patch 122761-01 is not
installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWswupclr will not be applied
to the system.

....which I'll have to research today rather than working on N1 which is what
I'm supposed to be doing.

Then there are the Studio11 patches. These still can only be applied by
hand because they require the "-G" option on patchadd. This has been
happening for months without explaination that I can discover.


--
Geoff Lane, Airstrip One

[email]news@buffy.sighup.org.uk[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Then there are the Studio11 patches. These still can only be applied by
> hand because they require the "-G" option on patchadd. This has been
> happening for months without explaination that I can discover.
>[/color]
They tell me it's down to the installer not playing with zones.

I tend to apply these by running pca twice, the second time using the -G
option, typicaly:

pca -i -n
pca -i -G
pca -i (to catch the patches that require a reboot)

--
Ian Collins.

Alex wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi All,
>
> I ran the update client on solaris, to find out whether there
> were new updates, It found 2 new updates,
>
> 1) UPdate client software
> 2) Apache update - 19Meg
>
> I selected only the update client.. It downloaded, installed. No
> problem. I closed the update client program and ran it again, to see
> that it was indeed a newer version.
>
> Clicked on "Check for updates".. 0 found
>
> Where has the Apache update gone? I am not too concerned about apache,
> my concern is, what if its overlooking critical updates in the future
> in this manner.
>
> Any thoughts?[/color]

Seems as though the missing update has now appeared in the list
of updates for the first time today.. Weird.

Thanks to all for the replies, I'll certainly give PCA a look at.

Alex