Under normal circumstances I am able to download a collection of missing
patches from the oracle patch server with PCA just fine. Not sure if what
I am seeing is "abnormal" however I normally just use PCA to --download
the "missing" patches and then deal with things later. This allows me to
get a feel for my downtime given that Solaris 10 with a pack of zones takes
simply forever to patch, usually downtime is 24 to 48 hours on a Sun Fire
V890 with 16 or more zones. So I have to schedule things for once or
twice a year.
Anyway, the problem I see is that after the tenth patch ( or thereabouts )
is downloaded via /usr/sfw/bin/wget and PCA into an archive directory that
is specified by the env var PCA_PATCHDIR I end up with a few normal
looking patches and a pile of strange things that are clearly not patches :
# cd archive
# ls -l
total 498921
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4287550 Apr 30 01:49 119315-28.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96753460 Apr 20 01:55 119757-27.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1070808 Jul 13 02:35 119906-21.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73405 Jul 13 02:36 120199-21.zip
.
.
.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1994351 Jul 13 02:44 148561-05.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2083 Jul 13 19:26 148689-01.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2083 Jul 13 19:26 148691-01.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2083 Jul 13 19:26 148693-01.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2083 Jul 13 19:26 149022-04.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2083 Jul 13 19:26 149063-01.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2083 Jul 13 19:26 149067-01.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2083 Jul 13 19:26 149112-01.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2083 Jul 13 19:26 149167-02.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2083 Jul 13 19:26 149171-02.zip
These little files are all html generated by Oracle Access Manager
Version: 11.1.1.5.0 which
have a warning in them :
The user has already reached the
maximum allowed number of sessions.
Please close one of the existing sessions
before trying to login again.
So I see that after patch number ten or twenty the Oracle site simply disallows
access perhaps. Not sure really.
So then I tried to download the patches one at a time. There are a lot of them
but again after about ten or so I see this on the screen :
Using /root/pca_data/xref/patchdiag.xref from Jul/12/13
Host: neptune (SunOS 5.10/Generic_148888-05/sparc/sun4v)
List: 149729-02 (1/0)
Patch IR CR RSB Age Synopsis
------ -- - -- --- --- -------------------------------------------------------
149729 -- < 02 --- 2 SunOS 5.10: ike patch
Looking for 149729-02 (1/1)
Trying Oracle
Trying https://getupdates.oracle.com/ (1/3)
Done
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Download Summary: 1 total, 1 successful, 0 skipped, 0 failed
So that patch should be fine ... however it isn't. It is the same
little piece of html.
Not sure what the correct action to take here is .. any thoughts?
Paul
