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Guardium patch installation stuck in the state "Preparing to install patch"

Troubleshooting


Problem

Guardium patch installation on the appliance does not progress and is stuck in the state "Preparing to install patch".

Symptom

When you execute "show system patch installed", you see the status of the patch installation as "Preparing to install patch" as can be seen in the example. It stays in this state forever and does not progress.
 
cli> show system patch installed
 
P#   Who  Description                     Request Time          Status
....
9997 CLI  SqlGuard-11.0p9997.tgz.enc.sig  2023-10-25 15:15:31   Preparing to install patch.

Document Location

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Document Information

Modified date:
12 December 2023

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ibm17096350