Missing Dependent Patches in the Non-Global Zone Can Cause 'patchadd' to Fail (Doc ID 1574629.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2023

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 10 3/05 to 10 1/13 U11 [Release 10.0]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Attempting to apply a patch to a system with zones.

Patch has dependencies which are installed in the global but not in the non-global zone

This might occur if:

zones are getting migrated between Global zones
the system was patched while zone not attached
some previous attempt to patch a system failed to patch one or more non-global-zones
one or more packages has been installed on non-global-zones with different version than on global zone

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