Chapter 4 Known Problems

This chapter describes known problems relating to the installation and use of the Solaris 9 MU1 software.

Installation Bugs

patchadd Displays Error Message If a Patch That Supports Multiple Patch Architecture Is Installed (4706994)

While installing the MU1, if you install a patch that supports multiple package architecture, an error similiar to the following benign error message might be displayed in the //var/sadm/install_data/Maintenance_Update_log.

Installing xxxxxx-yy (x of xx)
See //var/sadm/patch/xxxxxx-yy log for details
grep: can't open pdgabbrev.extension/pkginfo

For example, if patch 123456-01 contains the following patch packages:

• SUNWcar

• SUNWcar.u

grep: can't open SUNWcar.u/pkginfo

Workaround: Ignore the error message. The message does not affect the installation of the patch. The message indicates that patchadd(1M) doesn't pass the correct parameter to the remove_PATCH_PROPERTIES() function.

install_mu Does Not Function Correctly When Starting It Using sh (4062334)

Because of problems regarding the interactions between sh(1) and ksh(1), the install_mu utility might fail to install certain patches correctly when you start it using the following command from the command line or from an administrative script:

# /bin/sh ./install_mu options

Workaround: Execute install_mu from the command line or from an administrative script as follows:

# ./install_mu options

patchadd Displays an Error That It Is Terminating

One of the following benign messages might be displayed by install_mu:

One or more patch packages included in
XXXXXX-YY are not installed on this system.

Patchadd is terminating.

Or:

Installation of XXXXXX-YY failed:
Attempting to patch a package that is not installed.

These messages indicate patchadd could not find on your system any of the packages that it intended to patch, so it skipped the indicated patch.

The message is displayed when patchadd notices a discrepancy while installing a patch of one architecture onto a system with a different architecture (for example, a sun4u patch on a sun4m system.)

This message might also be the result of one or more missing packages. The package might have been removed by the administrator, or never installed, as in the case of installing a cluster smaller than the Entire Distribution.

Workaround: Ignore the message.

Cannot login if System Is Not Rebooted (4423853)

When installing in single-user mode, do not use the exit command when you are done. You must instead use the reboot command. If exit is used instead of reboot, the following happens:

• The system is brought to init 3, and you cannot log in until the system is rebooted.

• No other users can log in until the system is rebooted.

• pam_projects.so.1 dumps core when any user or process tries to log in. The following message is displayed:

  NOTICE: core_log: in.rshd[1479] core dumped: /var/crash/core.in.rshd.1479

• If a process attempts to access the pam_projects.so.1 module, load module messages are displayed on the system console. A message similar to the following is displayed:

  cron[1433]: load_modules: can not open module /usr/lib/security/pam_projects.so.1

  These messages are also displayed if MU1 is installed in multi-user mode. In both cases, the messages are no longer displayed once the system is rebooted.

Workaround: If the exit command is used after installing in single-user mode, reboot the system.

If the exit command is used after installing in multi-user mode and no root users remain logged in, reboot the system.