Solaris 10, DST, and Sun Update Manager
It would appear that in the latest release of Solaris 10 (11/06 - both Sparc and x86), out of the box the Sun Update Manager (hereafter referred to as SUM) does not work properly. This seems to be due to DST problems in the bundled JDK (1.5.0_11).
On two fresh installs, one Sparc (SunBlade 1500) and one x86 (Parallels Desktop), after the initial run of SUM I had multiple patches that failed to apply on the next restart. Repeated the SUM process and these patches (40 or so) were marked as download only, not install. I downloaded the tzupdater tool and ran it against the bundled JDK and restarted SDM - this time the patches were marked for install at next reboot and installed successfully when I rebooted the box.
Until Sun puts out another release of Solaris 10, the following steps should be followed to get a fully patched version.
- Install from removable media or Jumpstart.
- Download the tzupdater tool bundle and run it against the bundled jdk:
java -jar tzupdater.jar -u - Run SUM and apply patches as normal.
[composed and posted with ecto]
