[SunHELP] pkgadd failure - checkinstall

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 s at avoidant.org wrote:

| Hi,
|
| I seem to be having a problem adding packages or patches to my system
| (Ultra 10 with a fresh install of Solaris 8). It fails with an error
| that says
|
| pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
|
| I can run the checkinstall script manually with no problems, but when I
| try to run pkgadd or install a patch cluster, it fails miserably.

'chown -R nobody:nobody <patch tree>

checkinstall runs as user install, and if that user doesnt exist (which is
likely on a stock box) then it will be ran as user nobody.

Most likely, your problem is being caused by user nobody not being able to
read the patch information... so just do a recursive shown to nobody on
your patch tree(s) and try again.

/dale