Patch installation pb

[Carter Jay]

Hello,

I've got a problem when I try to instal several patches:
======= 08/21/02 18:04:02 WETDST BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive)

* Session started for user "root@manon".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "manon:/".
* "manon:/u01/patch/PHCO_25424.depot": This source is a tape
device.
* "manon:/u01/patch/PHCO_25424.depot": Cannot open the logfile
on this target or source. Possibly the media is read-only or
there is a permission problem. Check the daemon logfile and
"/var/tmp/swagent.log" on this host for more information.
NOTE: The match operation failed to find software in the source that
matches software on the target.
NOTE: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.

======= 08/21/02 18:04:04 WETDST END swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive)

And that's the same with lots of others...

Could you help

Regards

PS: The PHCO_xxx file is on a Lv, not tape :))

[Sajid_1]

a) check the permission of the patch depot files and make it read/execute to others.
b) If you are using 11.0, then in the swinstall window, go to Manage patch selection and then choose "automatically select patch to the target"

gl,

[Stefan Farrelly]

It looks like youve used the -x patch_match_target=true option but this failed to match the patch youre trying to install with whats installed already (eg. you may have a patch for a C compiler but the C compiler is not installed, or you have a newer version of this patch already installed)

Check very carefully this patch is what you want and if so then dont use the -x patch_match_target=true option (for 11, or -x match_target for 10.20). We often find we have to remove this option for individual patches such as security patches. They then install fine.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

the error is shown is because the *.depot is not a perfect or a comlete file , do a tar tvf PHC)_XXX.depot and you shoulde be able to see what that depot fiel contains . There can be many reasons like ( pathch not downloaded properly etc , this is a standard tar error if the source is not fine .)


you can may be try downloading the apotches again .

Manoj Srivastava