Hi.
There were a _lot_ of problems with SUC/updatemanager in early releases (how I know this shall remain shrouded in mystery). My advice would be to update Java to the latest of the 1.5 series, and apply the latest of the 12111[8|9]-xx patches from SunSolve.
Once you've done that, try the updatemanager GUI again.
If it still hangs, run 'updatemanager -debug' and see if there's anything interesting in the console output.
If you can't see why it's failing from that, try running 'smpatch analyze' (smpatch is the back-end app for the updatemanager GUI).
If you're still getting no joy, try running the following:
Code:
smpatch analyze -C patchpro.internal.statustags=true -C patchpro.log.level=7 -C patchpro.debug=true -C patchpro.log.file=/tmp/smpatchDebug.log
and see if there's anything interesting in the console output, or in /tmp/smpatchDebug.log . This incantation is highly verbose, so you should see what's going on.
Have a look in the Sun Update forums for similar issues too:
http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=871
Dave
