Installing SMC 3.5.1a on Solaris 10

Question

After "successfully" installing SMC via es-guiinst the process fails when attempting to use es-setup/es-guisetup. I get a message saying setup unsuccessful and pointing to a log (/var/opt/SUNWsymon/install/gui_setup_spinel.x) containg the following information:
The Setup script will be executed as : /var/opt/SUNWsymon/install/guibased-setup.x.sh
This file however does not exist . I have also noticed that one of the patched does not get installed properly [patch 118389-03] - as es-guiinst created a log file to which the following is found at the end.
Adding patch 118389-03
/usr/sbin/patchadd: illegal option -- G
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

After "successfully" installing SMC via es-guiinst
the process fails when attempting to use
es-setup/es-guisetup. Are you installing to the Global Zone, or trying to install into another Zone you created? Currently it's only supported in the Global Zone.
Adding patch 118389-03
/usr/sbin/patchadd: illegal option -- G
Any help is appreciated.I'm not in front of a Sol10 box right now, but I think the -G option is used for specifying which packages/patches are applied to the Glogal zone and which also apply to regular Zones.
I seem to remember seeing stuff like this before when I made Zones and jumped through the hoops to make them not share the default directories you normally get with the Global Zone (i.e. so the Zone has independent packaging + patching info). Basically SunMC 351a isn't 100% set up to know how to add packages/patches when Zones are around.... 351b may be a bit better at it, and 3.6 is supposed to work even better still.
Then again maybe I'm getting this all wrong from memory: my only suggestion would be to go back and manually patchadd/pkgadd things the blew up with bad -G options, then run es-setup again.
Regards,
Mike
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