Solaris 8 Maintenance Update 4 Installation Guide
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# Installation Bugs

## install_mu Does Not Function Correctly When Starting It Using sh (4062334)

Because of problems regarding the interactions between `sh(1)` and `ksh(1)`, the `install_mu` utility might fail to install certain patches correctly when you start it using the following command from the command line or from an administrative script:

    # /bin/sh ./install_mu options

Workaround: Execute `install_mu` from the command line or from an administrative script as follows:

    # ./install_mu options

## Patchadd Displays an Error That It Is Terminating

One of the following benign messages might be displayed by `install_mu`:

    One or more patch packages included in
    XXXXXX-YY are not installed on this system.
    Patchadd is terminating.

Or:

    Installation of XXXXXX-YY failed:
      Attempting to patch a package that is not installed.

These messages indicate that `patchadd` could not find on your system any of the packages that it intended to patch, so it skipped the indicated patch.

The message is displayed when `patchadd` notices a discrepancy installing a patch of one architecture onto a system with a different architecture (for example, a `sun4u` patch on a `sun4m` system.)

This may also be the result of one or more missing packages. The package might have been removed by the administrator, or never installed, as in the case of installing a cluster smaller than the Entire Distribution.

Workaround: Ignore the message.

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