[pca] patching broke my server!

[Greg Matthews]

Martin Paul wrote:
> Greg Matthews wrote:
>> probably not a PCA issue but has anyone seen this problem?
> 
> I checked SunSolve, but couldn't find anything useful there. Seems as if 
> a kernel patch hasn't been installed completely. Did you see any errors 
> when running pca?
> 
>> looks like a mismatch between kernel and modules. I rolled back the 
>> kernel patch from 137111 but the undefined symbol problem persists.
> 
> Is 137111 the only kernel patch during you patching session? There are 
> 118833, 120011 and 127127 as well. You might want to check the log files 
> under /var/sadm/patch/*/log to see if one of the patch failed to install.

booting from cd now.

> 
> Do you have a mirrored root filesystem on that machine, BTW? I think 
> I've once read that a broken root mirror might cause similar problems.

oh dear! yes a mirrored root - but then all our servers have mirrored root.

G

> 
> Martin.
> 
> 


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