[indiana-discuss] Update manager failure

[David Abrahams]

on Fri May 29 2009, David.Comay-AT-Sun.COM wrote:

>> I was surprised to see that there seemed to be updates available for my
>> 0906 installation.  Anyway, I tried to do the update, but to no avail:
>>
>> Preparing...
>> Ensuring Update Manager is up to date...
>> Gathering packages information, please wait...
>>
>> Error:
>> An unknown error occured in the None stage.
>> Please let the developers know about this problem
>> by filing a bug together with exception value at:
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org
>
> Were you using build 111a prior to seeing the updates?  If so, this is
> bug 8581 which can be worked around by instead enter the command

Yep, I was.

> 	pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg SUNWipkg-gui SUNWipkg-um
>
> rather than just installing SUNWipkg.

Somehow everything seems to be cool now anyway.

Thanks!
-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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