Apple Software updates on Lion

[Wes Bartlett]

I've got my munki install serving packages and was attempting to get
Apple software updates working through munki but I have run into an
issue. After writing the SoftwareUpdateServerURL key on the client to
be: http://server.example.com:8088/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
when I run the Managed Software Update process it reports no updates
found, with an error in the log of ERROR: softwareupdate error: 100

In looking through the archives here I noticed another post about a
similar issue so I ran softwareupdate -d -a from the command line and
it successfully pulled updates to match what I was seeing from
manually running the Software Update command from the menu. Any ideas
on what to check on?

[Greg Neagle]

I've seen this on occasion in my own fleet. Once it gets in this state, any attempt to run softwareupdate ends with error 100. The issue goes away after a reboot.

Sent from my iPhone

[Wes Bartlett]

Restarting did all MSU to show the available Apple updates, but now when I'm click update now followed by Logout and Update the machine logs out and I briefly see a install progress bar before being dumped back to the login screen.  I've checked the MSU log file and am pasting it below - is it something I am missing?

## Starting managedsoftwareupdate run: logoutinstall ###

May 23 10:59:15 Starting...

May 23 10:59:17     The following Apple Software Updates are available to install:

May 23 10:59:17         + Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update-3.12

May 23 10:59:17         + Flashback malware removal tool-1.0

May 23 10:59:17         + Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update-3.13

May 23 10:59:17         + Mac OS X Update-10.7.4

May 23 10:59:17            *Restart required

May 23 10:59:17         + iTunes-10.6.1

May 23 10:59:17 Installing available Apple Software Updates...

May 23 10:59:17 ERROR: Missing local Software Update catalog at /Library/Managed Installs/swupd/content/catalogs/local_install.sucatalog

May 23 10:59:17 Finishing...

May 23 10:59:17 Saving application inventory...

May 23 10:59:17 ### Ending managedsoftwareupdate run ###

Thanks,

Wes

On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:42:08 PM UTC-4, gregn...@mac.com wrote:

I've seen this on occasion in my own fleet. Once it gets in this state, any attempt to run softwareupdate ends with error 100. The issue goes away after a reboot.

Sent from my iPhone

[Greg Neagle]

On May 23, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Wes Bartlett wrote:

Restarting did all MSU to show the available Apple updates, but now when I'm click update now followed by Logout and Update the machine logs out and I briefly see a install progress bar before being dumped back to the login screen.  I've checked the MSU log file and am pasting it below - is it something I am missing?

## Starting managedsoftwareupdate run: logoutinstall ###

May 23 10:59:15 Starting...

May 23 10:59:17     The following Apple Software Updates are available to install:

May 23 10:59:17         + Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update-3.12

May 23 10:59:17         + Flashback malware removal tool-1.0

May 23 10:59:17         + Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update-3.13

May 23 10:59:17         + Mac OS X Update-10.7.4

May 23 10:59:17            *Restart required

May 23 10:59:17         + iTunes-10.6.1

May 23 10:59:17 Installing available Apple Software Updates...

May 23 10:59:17 ERROR: Missing local Software Update catalog at /Library/Managed Installs/swupd/content/catalogs/local_install.sucatalog

Did you investigate this path to see why Munki couldn't write here?

If the path is OK, I think I'd just remove /Library/Managed Installs/AppleUpdates.plist and run Managed Software Update again to see what happens.

[Wes Bartlett]

I'm not sure what the permissions are supposed to be set at for munki but what was present was 755 with the user being system and the group being admin.

I deleted the plist and saw the same behavior - after that I tried allowing full access to the catalogs folder itself with the same results.

[Greg Neagle]

Are you seeing this behavior on more than one machine?

I have not seen nor am aware of anything like this behavior.

-Greg

[Wes Bartlett]

I tried it on two other Lion machines and it worked just fine - must
be something local to that machine. Thanks for all your help.

> >> > be:http://server.example.com:8088/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-...