smpatch on solaris 8

Hi,
Does anyone know whats wrong with smptach installation and/or configuration, when running 'smpatch analyze', i get this:
com.sun.patchpro.util.FailedStateException: StateMachine.start(): null
at com.sun.patchpro.util.StateMachine.start(StateMachine.java:470)
at com.sun.patchpro.util.StateMachine.start(StateMachine.java:192)
at com.sun.patchpro.util.StateMachine.start(StateMachine.java:163)
at com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProModel$InnerSequencerThread.run(PatchProModel.java:2483)

Thanks

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5102480

Here's a link that may help you. I haven't experienced the problem
myself but it looks like a few other people have.