SUMMARY: Error Message from showrev -p

From: Bob Reardon (bobr@cassie.Sugar-land.Wireline.SLB.COM)
Date: Sat Aug 19 1995 - 00:14:14 CDT


The problem we reported was this:
        Has anybody seen this problem when trying to
          list information about patches via showrev
        under Solariss 2.4?
        Can it be fixed, short of reinstalling Solaris?
# showrev -p
showrev: Method program unexpectedly terminated with signal 11
        
There have been several responses in just one day's time.
Most suggested looking closely at the /var/sadm/pkg
directory to make sure that -
 1) It contained only directories
 2) The permissions were correct on the directories.

SOLUTION:
        There was a 'plain file' in /var/sadm/pkg that did
        not belong there. It was deleted and the
        showrev -p command now works correctly.
Thanks to all who responded. Here's a list of all such
folks up to now:
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan
kmumford@mail-gw.esoc.esa.de (Mumford)
casper@Holland.Sun.COM
aarstad@oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (Rune Aarstad)
irana@hydres.co.uk
Roland Kaltefleiter <rk@theo-physik.uni-kiel.d400.de>
clg@zygote.csph.psu.edu (Craig Gruneberg)
mel@maths.abdn.ac.uk (Mel)



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