I ran into this problem today and was curious if anyone else had seen it.
I am attempting to add patch 137402-02 on a v890 running Sol9.
Here's the error I get:
#> patchadd 137402-02
Checking installed patches...
Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...
Patch 137402-02 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd.
See /var/sadm/patch/137402-02/log for details
Patchadd is terminating.
Checking the specified log file I get:
# cat /var/sadm/patch/137402-02/log
This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture and
version of a package which is already installed. This installation
will attempt to overwrite this package.
/export/home/hed0431/137402-02/SUNWsadmi/install/checkinstall: /export/home/hed0 431/137402-02/SUNWsadmi/install/checkinstall: cannot open
pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
Dryrun complete.
No changes were made to the system.
The special instructions for this patch require taking the system to Single user mode:
I've not seen this error, but one thing that comes to mind immediately is to do a "showrev -p | grep 137402" and see if that version or newer is already there.
Another guess, it looks like maybe patchadd isn't finding the files correctly. I believe patchadd expects them in a certain place, but your output makes it look like the patch is in your home directory (?) Check the manpage to see how to specify where to get the patches from. Maybe go to the directory you have it in and do "patchadd -d . 137402-02" or similar. Or try giving the full pathname instead of going to the directory and using the ".".