[Spacewalk-list] Solaris patching pitfall

[Lopez, Abel]

This appears to be hitting a catch-22
Creating the mpm on the spacewalk server works fine with the new format of Solaris cluster patches. However, the client side (installed from rhn-solaris-bootstrap-5.1.1-3-sparc-sol10)  is looking for the old filenames (i.e. install_cluster not installcluster).
Furthermore, attempting to create the mpm using the workaround detailed in bug 559092 causes solaris2mpm to fail.

[root at spacewalk-test sol]# zip -q -r 10_Recommended.zip 10_Recommended && solaris2mpm --tempdir=/tmp/ 10_Recommended.zip
Opening archive, this may take a while
Error creating mpm for /root/sol/10_Recommended.zip:


It sounds like newer versions of rhn-solaris-bootstrap need to be made available.

On Oct 4, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Lopez, Abel wrote:

More details
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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