The problem was I had wrong permission setting (700) with one of the
upstream directories. I knew that installpatch ran a nobody since the
system didn't have an "install" user and I didn't trace the permissions
all the way upstream. I wasn't thinking clearly!
>----------
>From: Phillips Nguyen[SMTP:nguyep@buzzeo.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 3, 1998 7:18 AM
>To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: recommended patches
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm having problem installing the 2.6 recomended patches. All of them
>failed with the following error message.
>
>pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully.
>
>I've read the Install.info and it suggested that this problem is due to
>incorrect permission. However, I untar'ed and ran the installpatch
>script (also patchadd and pkgadd) as root. The permission is also
>correct.
>
>Does anyone know what might be the problem and what's the solution?
>
>TIA
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