Solaris 8 update manager authentication issue

Question

Hi
I am on Sparc , solaris 8. When I run updatemanager, it asks me user name. It keeps on asking username and it does not ask for password of root user.
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Filesystem
Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 2.9G 689M 2.2G 24% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 4.9G 1.4G 3.4G 29% /usr
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 940M 176M 708M 20% /var
swap 51M 24K 51M 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 4.9G 2.0G 2.9G 42% /opt
swap 51M 16K 51M 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 241M 9.0K 217M 1% /swap
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 3.9G 3.4G 487M 88% /export/home
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Error in background shell,
updatemanager
Warning: Cannot convert string "-monotype-arial-regular-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-i so8859-1" to type FontStruct
Not enough space
java.io.IOException: Not enough space
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(Native Method)
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:53)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java: 451)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:591)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:464)
at com.sun.cns.authentication.CSMAuthenticator.isUidZe ro(CSMAuthenticator.java:110)
at com.sun.cns.authentication.AuthenticationDialog.aut henticate(AuthenticationDialog.java:89)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.AuthenticationManager.authen ticate(AuthenticationManager.java:57)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.UpdateFrame.setVisible(Updat eFrame.java:87)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.Application.<init>(Applicati on.java:208)
at com.sun.swup.client.ui.Application.main(Application .java:109)
Not enough space
java.io.IOException: Not enough space
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(Native Method)
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:53)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java: 451)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:591)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:464)
at com.sun.cns.authentication.CSMAuthenticator.isUidZe ro(CSMAuthenticator.java:137)
at com.sun.cns.authentication.AuthenticationDialog.act ionPerformed(AuthenticationDialog.java:463)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Abst ractButton.java:1849)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed( AbstractButton.java:2169)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed( DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultBu ttonModel.java:258)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseRel eased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java :5517)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent .java:3135)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5282 )
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966 )
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java :3984)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java :2024)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:381 9)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(C ontainer.java:4212)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Co ntainer.java:3892)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Contai ner.java:3822)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java :2010)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1791)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:381 9)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:4 63)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarc hy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy (EventDispatchThread.java:163)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy (EventDispatchThread.java:153)
at java.awt.Dialog$1.run(Dialog.java:535)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationE vent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:4 61)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarc hy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHie
please help

Answer 1

Well, the errors point out to not enough space in tmp
anyways, try to use " sconadm " to register yourself, all in all the fancy gui calls it underneath ...
hth
Lubos