[SunHELP] Problems installing patches

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Can you restore the /var/sadm directory tree from backup? That would be easier
than doing a fresh install of the OS.

Andrew Rotramel





Kuthonuzo Luruo <kluruo at cs.uic.edu>@sunhelp.org on 12/19/2001 12:54:11 PM

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> Do you have cleared something in /var/sadm ?

Yes i did. dumb i guess. Dale Ghent on the list suggested reinstalling the
OS. might there be a less drastic way of "patching" this?

thanks

-thonuzo

>
> If yes ... then you have a problem to install patches.
>
> Michael
>
> > Von: Kuthonuzo Luruo <kluruo at cs.uic.edu>
> > Antworten an: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Datum: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:21:06 -0600 (CST)
> > An: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Betreff: [SunHELP] Problems installing patches
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > while trying to install the set of recomended patches from the sun website
> > on an ULTRA 60 solaris 7 box, i'm getting an error similar to the
> > following for EVERY patch:
> >
> > # patchadd 107544-03
> >
> > Checking installed patches...
> > One or more patch packages included in
> > 107544-03 are not installed on this system.
> >
> > Patchadd is terminating.
> >
> > am unable to install ANY patch on my system.
> >
> > thanks for any help!
> >
> > -thonuzo
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