System Administration Guide

Chapter 74 Troubleshooting Software Administration Problems

This chapter describes problems you may encounter when installing or removing software packages. There are two sections: Specific Software Administration Errors, which describes package installation and administration errors you might encounter, and General Software Administration Problems, which describes behavioral problems that might not result in a particular error message.

This is a list of information in this chapter.

See Chapter 16, Software Administration (Overview) for information about managing software packages.

Specific Software Administration Errors

WARNING: filename <not present on Read Only file system>

Reason Error Occurred	How to Fix the Problem
This error message indicates that not all of a package's files could be installed. This usually occurs when you are using `pkgadd` to install a package on a client. In this case, `pkgadd` attempts to install a package on a file system that is mounted from a server, but `pkgadd` doesn't have permission to do so.	If you see this warning message during a package installation, you must also install the package on the server. See "How to Add Packages to a Server" on page 308 for details.

General Software Administration Problems

Reason Error Occurred	How to Fix the Problem
There is a known problem with adding or removing some packages developed prior to the Solaris 2.5 release. Sometimes, when adding or removing these packages, the installation fails during user interaction or you are prompted for user interaction and your responses are ignored.	Set the following environment variable and try to add the package again. `NONABI_SCRIPTS=TRUE`

Reason Error Occurred

How to Fix the Problem

There is a known problem with adding or removing some packages developed prior to the Solaris 2.5 release. Sometimes, when adding or removing these packages, the installation fails during user interaction or you are prompted for user interaction and your responses are ignored.

Set the following environment variable and try to add the package again.

NONABI_SCRIPTS=TRUE