[Spacewalk-list] Solaris patching pitfall

[Lopez, Abel]

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spacewalk server 1.1 on CentOS 5.4
Solaris 10 system using rhn-solaris-bootstrap-5.1.1-3-sparc-sol10

On Oct 4, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Lopez, Abel wrote:

> Hello all,
> I've just began playing around with spacewalk, and my first attempt to patch a solaris 10 sparc system seems to have stalled.
> It's been stuck at 0% for quite a while now - Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> root at XXXXXX# /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhn_check 
> Installing patch cluster:  [[['patch-cluster-solaris-10_Recommended', '20100928', '1', 'sparc-solaris-patch-cluster', 'sol10-sparc'], {}]]
> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
> 
> Computing transaction...
> Fetching packages...                                                           
> -> rhn://sol10-sparc/.../patch-cluster-solaris-10_Recommended-20100928-1.sparc-solaris-patch-cluster.zip
> patch-cluster-solaris-10_Reco.. ######################################## [100%]
> 
> 
> Committing transaction...
> Installing patch-cluster-sola..                                          (  0%)
> 
> ps and truss
> ps -ef | grep rhn
>    root  3162     1   0   Oct 01 ?           0:00 /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhnsd --interval 240
>    root  3867  3866   0 10:54:41 pts/1       0:00 unzip /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/var/lib/smart/packages/patch-cluster-solaris-10_R
>    root  3866  3841   0 10:54:41 pts/1       0:00 sh -c { unzip /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/var/lib/smart/packages/patch-cluster-sola
>    root  3841  3840   0 10:52:54 pts/1       0:26 /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/bin/python /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhn_check
>    root  3962  3870   0 11:28:14 pts/2       0:00 grep rhn
> root at lauxsc05# truss -p 3867
> read(0, 0xFF339C48, 1024)       (sleeping...)
> 
> 
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