PatchPro Locks Up Indefinitely When Running on Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 Systems (4882095)

Error: PatchPro is in use by another process. Please try again later.

Description:

Each time that you run the pprosetup command, the following error message appears:

Error: PatchPro is in use by another process. Please try again later.

Cause:

This problem occurs when a previous pprosetup command did not complete cleanly or when pprosetup -H was running and then was interrupted when you typed Control-C. In such cases, the lock file is not removed even if the process is no longer running.

Workaround:

Manually remove the lock file, patchpro.conf.lock, from the /etc/opt/SUNWppro/etc directory.

# rm /etc/opt/SUNWppro/etc/patchpro.conf.lock