Catalog Error

BRIGGS, RICHARD A rb4723 at att.com
Thu Feb 5 19:58:25 CET 2015


Peter!  Thank you!  It was indeed a firewall/proxy issue!  




-----Original Message-----
From: users [mailto:users-bounces+rb4723=att.com at lists.opencsw.org] On Behalf Of Peter Bonivart
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 3:53 AM
To: Questions and discussions
Subject: Re: Catalog Error

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:42 AM, BRIGGS, RICHARD A <rb4723 at att.com> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users [mailto:users-bounces+rb4723=att.com at lists.opencsw.org] On Behalf Of Peter Bonivart
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 3:12 PM
> To: Questions and discussions
> Subject: Re: Catalog Error
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:26 PM, BRIGGS, RICHARD A <rb4723 at att.com> wrote:
>>> My openCSW was working fine, but now I get this....does anyone know why?
>>>
>>>
>>> # pkgutil -a
>> >Stale lock file (/var/opt/csw/pkgutil/admin.run) removed
>> >common               package              catalog                        size
>> >Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[0] in concatenation (.) or string at /opt/csw/b
>> >n/pkgutil line 134.
>>>
>> >No exact matches found, doing fuzzy matching for first argument () ...
>> >Use of uninitialized value $P in length at /opt/csw/lib/perl/csw/String/Approx.p
>> >m line 242.
>> >Suggestions: 1
>>>
>> ># pkgutil -A
>> >package                   catalog                   installed
>>
>>Take a look at your local catalog file, it's probably empty or
>>corrupt. It should be in /var/opt/csw/pkgutil but you can try "pkgutil
>>--catinfo" to see more info about path and number of packages it
>>contains.
>
>
> # pkgutil --catinfo
>
> URL             http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/allpkgs/sparc/5.10
> Release         -
> Creation time   -
> Number of pkgs  0
> File            /var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog.mirror.opencsw.org_opencsw_allpkgs_
> sparc_5.10
>
> URL             http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/sparc/5.10
> Release         -
> Creation time   -
> Number of pkgs  0
> File            /var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog.mirror.opencsw.org_opencsw_sparc_5.
> 10
>
> URL             http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/testing/sparc/5.10
> Release         -
> Creation time   -
> Number of pkgs  0
> File            /var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog.mirror.opencsw.org_opencsw_testing_
> sparc_5.10
>
> URL             http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/opencsw/current/sparc/5.1
> 0
> Release         -
> Creation time   -
> Number of pkgs  0
> File            /var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog.mirrors.ibiblio.org_pub_mirrors_ope
> ncsw_current_sparc_5.10
>
> URL             http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/opencsw/sparc/5.10
> Release         -
> Creation time   -
> Number of pkgs  0
> File            /var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog.www.ibiblio.org_pub_packages_solari
> s_opencsw_sparc_5.10
>
> also:
>
> # pkgutil --catinfo
> => Fetching new catalog and descriptions (https://reflector.westga.edu/repos/Ope
> nCSW/sparc/5.10) if available ...
> ^C--2015-02-03 17:33:53--  https://reflector.westga.edu/repos/OpenCSW/sparc/5.10
> /catalog
> Resolving reflector.westga.edu... 160.10.5.26
> Connecting to reflector.westga.edu|160.10.5.26|:443...
> Fetching of catalog failed.

You need to fix your download issues. Pkgutil uses wget for the
downloads so if you can manually download a catalog pkgutil can too.
Just browse the url:s above and try wget:ing the catalog files. Maybe
you have firewall and/or proxy issues?


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