Dan Klinedinst wrote: > Hello, > I have a Solaris 10 machine with one non-global zone. When I try to do > pkgadd or pkgrm of any package it complains about not being able to do > it on the non-global zone, and therefore fails for the global zone as well: > > ## Waiting for up to <300> seconds for package administration commands > to become available (another user is administering packages on zone <xxxx>) > pkgadd: ERROR: Unable to acquire package administration lock for zone > <xxxx>; please try again later > pkgadd: ERROR: Unable to acquire lock on non-global zone <xxxx>: > releasing all locks > pkgadd: ERROR: unable to lock zones to perform operations > > I checked to make sure there are no lock files in either /tmp or > /var/sadm/pkg on both zones. > > I can do a pkgadd with the -G option (global zone only), but I'm trying > to install a large application from a vendor so it's impractical to > trace every one of their install scripts and find where it does a > pkgadd. Plus there's no -G option to pkgrm so I can never uninstall > (not even packages that were installed with -G to begin with.) > > We have plenty of S10 machines running non-global zones and this is only > a problem on this one machine. Can't find any mention of it on Sun's > web site or Google. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dan > _______________________________________________
hello Dan, i recently had a similar problem with the staroffice update 2 patch. i was trying to install the patch from a directory deep within my home dir - i tried then and moved the patch in / (also tried /tmp) and the installation proceeded successfully. i am not sure what exactly causes the problem and if this "fix" will work for you too but you can give it a try. the particular machine was solaris 10 3/05 x86. greetings, Stoyan _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
