SUMMARY - pkgadd woes

From: Sue Thielen (Sue.Thielen@epeople.com)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 15:14:16 CST


I couldn't solve this puppy at all, and since it was
a brand new install, I just re-loaded the OS. Everything
is A OK now

Thanks to those that helped!

sue

Original Message

n a Brand new Ultra 5 running Solaris 7.

Part way through the install of the sudo package, the .lockfile
in /var/sadm/intall got deleted. Now I can't add anymore packages!

I get the following.. when I retry that or any other package.

Using </usr/local> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
    bad entry read from contents file
    - pathname: /var/yp/updaters
    - problem: unknown ftype
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to merge package and system information

Installation of <SMCsudo> failed (internal error).
No changes were made to the system.

Using truss I get the following

 truss -f -t open -t stat pkgadd -d sudo-1.5.9p3-sol7-sparc-local
.....

423: stat("/usr/local/sbin/visudo", 0x00054360) = 0
    bad entry read from contents file
    - pathname: /var/yp/updaters
    - problem: unknown ftype
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to merge package and system information

What can I do to fix this??

Susan KJ Thielen ePeople
Unix Systems Administrator 450 National Avenue
Ph: 650 694-6475 Mountain View, CA
Fx: 650 694-6401 94043-2388
Email: sue.thielen@epeople.com www.epeople.com

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