Thanks to Ronald W. Henderson
Solution 1:
If you are using Korn shell make sure you have turned off noclobber .
Use set +o noclobber
Then try add the patch again with the -u option to installpatch....
Solution 2:
Use su - instead of su to prevent the mixture of user and root's
environment.
My original problem:
I am trying to install Solaris 2.5 sparc patch 103187-09.
Installation script termiantes with the follwing messages:
# ./installpatch .
Checking installed packages and patches...
Generating list of files to be patched...
./installpatch[42]: /tmp/pkgfiles.12417: file already exists
./installpatch[42]: /tmp/pkgfiles.12417: file already exists
Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (exhaustive method)...
Installing patch packages...
./installpatch[28]: /tmp/pkgaddlog.12417: file already exists
The installation of patch 103187-09 was interrupted.
Installpatch needs to be re-invoked to ensure proper installation of the
patch.
Backoutpatch is terminating.
Installpatch is terminating.
Reinvoking the patch does not solve my problem.
It seems that the package SUNWarc has been added when I check with showrev -p.
After installing Solaris 2.5, I have applied 2.5 Recommended patches to
this machine with nosave option. This is the first patch I have tried
to install after the recommended patches.
Thanks for any help.
Reyhan Sarkmaz
Bilkent University Computer Center
Unix Systems Administrator
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