SUMMARY: Error code 1 when patching on Solaris 10?

[Christopher L. Barnard]

I asked:

> I have a modified install_cluster that I built back in the days of
> Solaris 2.6 that deletes patches with an error code 2 or 8 so that when
> the cluster is done, the only patches left are the ones that had issues.
> This worked fine with Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and 9.  With Solaris 10, sun changed
> the installpatch shell script to a binary.  This should not have mattered,
> but a lot of patches now fail with the error code of 1.  According to the
> patchadd shell script, error code 1 is a patchadd usage error. (!??!!!)
> I rather doubt that Sun would release the vast majority of their patches in
> the 10_Recommended cluster with patch spinning errors.  Can anyone identify
> why about 70% of my patches fail with this error?  Some do error with a
> 2 or 8, so that functionality is still preserved in Solaris 10.  I never
> had an error code 1 on any previous OS installation.
>
> TIA, and I will summarize.

The answer:

Sun changed the way patchadd works to support multiple zones on a Solaris 10
server.  If you don't have multiple zones on a server (like me) you can
add the -t flag to patchadd to get the former usage from the script.  With
the -t flag added, all is working properly.

Thanks to
Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>
Tom Crummey <tom at ee.ucl.ac.uk>

as well as

Michel Nguyen <MNguyen at mediagrif.com>
Michael Hocke <michael.hocke at nyu.edu>
Rob Windsor <windsor at warthog.com>
brian zuk <brian.zuk at gmail.com>
Anthony D'Atri <aad at beak.org>

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