Hello Managers -
This is sort of a continuation of my Software Installation
thread from yesterday. I believe the reason for the
incomplete installation notice on some of the software subsets
may have been from the following failed patch attempt. Sorry
about the length.
Questions(contained below):Can I use dupatch to remove a
patch that was not installed successfully? Could I have bypassed
a successful patch with an unsuccessful patch leaving the system
as though no patches had been installed?
Before I took over as admin on the machine the April/May 1997
patch kit 0004 was installed. About the time I took over
in Sept., we tried installing the August 1997 patch kit 0004.
We were never successful, and I now believe it was because we
used the wrong tar program. Anyway, the following files exist
in the /usr/.smdb. directory.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 387 Sep 25 11:25 OSFPAT00000000410.ctrl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1103 Sep 25 11:25 OSFPAT00000000410.inv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 18 Sep 25 11:25 OSFPAT00000000410.lk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 4985 Sep 25 11:25 OSFPAT00000000410.scp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 386 Jul 19 1997 OSFPAT00000003410.ctrl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1103 Jul 19 1997 OSFPAT00000003410.inv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1098 Jan 27 15:24 OSFPAT00000003410.lk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 4985 Jul 19 1997 OSFPAT00000003410.scp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 387 Sep 25 11:25 OSFPAT00000006410.ctrl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1103 Sep 25 11:25 OSFPAT00000006410.inv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Sep 25 11:25 OSFPAT00000006410.lk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 4985 Sep 25 11:25 OSFPAT00000006410.scp
If I understand what is going on, *0410 files are for the basic DU4.0B,
the *3410 files are for the first patch, and the *6410 are for the second
patch.
All of the patches that are installed are in the *3410.lk file, but And this is
the main question I have:
The *0410.lk file has OSFPAT00000006410 as its only entry, and the *6410.lk file
is empty. So, Have I effectively bypassed the patches associated with the first
patch? What I would like to do is remove(possibly) the failed attempt with the
second patch by running the dupatch remove feature. Is this possible?
The message in /usr/var/adm/patch/log is below(the tar message is what makes me
think we were using the wrong tar program - there are 2 different ones on our
system):
* A new version of patch tools required for patch management
is now being installed on your system.
tar: - : This doesn't look like a tar archive
tar: - : Skipping to next file...
setld:
File copy to system disk failed.
Subset OSFPAT00000006410 may not have been installed properly on your system
but the rest of the installation will continue.
setld:
^GThere were verification errors for "Patch Tools " (OSFPAT00000006410)
dupatch:
Failed to update patch tools.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide
Sincerely,
Ron Bowman
Techno-Sciences, Inc.
864-646-4028
864-646-4001(fax)
rdbowma_at_tsi.clemson.edu
Received on Wed Jan 28 1998 - 16:57:23 NZDT