Installation of novell-npum failed on Solaris 8

  • 7006326
  • 22-Jun-2010
  • 28-Mar-2013

Environment

Novell Privileged User Manager 2.2.1
Solaris 8

Situation

New installation of Novell Privileged User Manager agent on Solaris 8 failed with the following errors:

unifid service starting.
ld.so.1: unifid: fatal: libuuid.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed
pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully

Installation of <novell-npum> failed.

Resolution

Apply the latest minimum recommended patches from Sun for Solaris 8, specifically 'patch 115831-01'

Once Sun patches have been applied, reinstall the Novell Privileged User Manager agent.