Software Administration Troubleshooting

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This chapter describes problems you may encounter when installing or removing software packages. There are two sections: Specific Software Administration Errors, which describes package installation and administration errors you might encounter, and General Software Administration Problems, which describes behavioral problems that might not result in a particular error message.

The following table shows common error messages and the page number where you can find causes and possible solutions to the related errors.


  WARNING: filename <not present on Read Only file system>;          page 334

Specific Software Administration Errors


  WARNING: filename <not present on Read Only file system>

Reason Error Occurred	How to Fix the Problem
This error message indicates that not all of a	If you see this warning message during a package installation, you
package's files could be installed. This usually	must also install the package on the server. See "How to Add
occurs when you are using `pkgadd` to install a	Packages to a Server" on page 313 for details.

package on a client. In this case, pkgadd attempts to install a package on a file system that is mounted from a server, but pkgadd doesn't have permission to do so.

General Software Administration Problems

Problem	How to Fix the Problem
There is a known problem with adding or	Set the following environment variable and try to add the package
removing some packages developed prior to	again.

Solaris 2.5. Sometimes, when adding or removing these packages, the installation fails during user

NONABI_SCRIPTS=TRUE

interaction or you are prompted for user interaction and your responses are ignored.