[SunHELP] 8_Recommened patch cluster problems

[Hichael Morton]

after untarring the 8_Recommended patches, did you read the "readme" 
files for each patch?

many patches have dependencies and unless those dependency patches are 
loaded first, the pathc will fail.  the readme files list any dependency 
(and there are a lot of patches with dependencies).

Solaris Neophyte wrote:
> i have a fresh solaris 8 install that needs to be patched.
> 
> i haven't added any other patches or installed any additional software.
> 
> i ran the patch cluster by with the '-nosave -q' options.
> 
> however, i'm getting nothing but return codes 5 and 25, which are defined as
> the following:
> 
> 5        pkgadd failed
> 25       A required patch is not applied
> 
> why am i getting these errors?  why is pkgadd failing and why is it saying that
> a required patch is not applied?  i thought it was using the patch order
> included in the patch package, so it should install everything in proper order.
> 
> any recommendations on what's going on with this one?
> 
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