Solaris 11 and Later - pkg command fails with: OSError: [Errno 20] or OSError: [Errno 2] (Doc ID 2076001.1)

Last updated on JULY 24, 2023

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 11.0 and later
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

pkg update or pkg uninstall fails with error OSError:

The shown errno and target name can vary.

From errno.h:
#define ENOENT 2 /* No such file or directory */
#define ENOTDIR 20 /* Not a directory */

Example error messages below:

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