Craig Bell wrote:
Hello all - I recently ran into an issue using pca(8) with zones and $TMPDIR.
Have you seen this before?
Not me. I have only minimal experience with patch zones (and zones in general).
So I can only comment on this sub-question:
Alternate theory: I recall years ago (probably on 5.8) that patchadd invoked
certain sub-commands as EUID "nobody", and occasionally I would see the odd
failure when my current working directory was only accessible by root. Maybe
this is something similar to that.
This problem still exists in Solaris 10 9/10, but the error looks different than
in your example:
# pwd
/tmp/patch
# ls -la
total 352
drwx------ 3 root root 253 Feb 3 09:32 .
drwxrwxrwt 7 root sys 1300 Feb 3 09:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 726 Nov 30 23:28 146279-01
# patchadd 146279-01
Validating patches...
Loading patches installed on the system...
Done!
Loading patches requested to install.
Done!
Checking patches that you specified for installation.
Done!
Approved patches will be installed in this order:
146279-01
Checking installed patches...
Executing prepatch script...
Patch 146279-01 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd.
See /var/sadm/patch/146279-01/log for details
Patchadd is terminating.
# cat /var/sadm/patch/146279-01/log
This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture and
version of a package which is already installed. This installation
will attempt to overwrite this package.
/tmp/patch/146279-01/SUNWbnuu/install/checkinstall:
/tmp/patch/146279-01/SUNWbnuu/install/checkinstall: cannot open
pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
Dryrun complete.
No changes were made to the system.
#
Martin.
