pkginfo problem

[nyck]

Hello,

when i run a pkginfo on one of my solaris9 boxes i get the following message:-

pkginfo: ERROR: pkginfo file is corrupt or missing

any ideas how i fix this?

cheers

nick

 

[KenCunningham]

Have you another server you can copy a known good one from?

 

[daFranze]

try a
truss -o /tmp/truss.out -v all -f pkginfo
and look at the truss.out file. This will tell you which file is missing, because a open(), access() or stat() of this file will fail. TRy to copy the missing tree from another host (if you have something very similar) to fix this; pkginfo files can not be generated...

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years in the domain of the OS, Backup and Storage

 

[nyck]

Hello,

i have run that truss command and copied across the packages which were causing a problem. But when i run a pkginfo -l i now get the following message:-


pkginfo: ERROR: bad entry read in contents file
pathname: /kernel/drv/sparcv9/devinfo
problem: unable to read content info

is there anyway i can fix this?

cheers

nick

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi Nick. How did you copy the files? If by ftp did you use binary format?

 

[nyck]

hello,

yes i tarred up the directories and ftp'd them across in binary format.

i'm just having a grub round on the interweb to see how i can get past this next issue!

cheers

nick

 

[nyck]

if i restore the whole of /var/sadm/pkg from a backup before i had this issue then would this fix the problem?

cheers

nick

 

[mrn]

Copy SUNWlibm from a good server; if you've got one.

Mike

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