[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.

120011 didnt seem to have even been downloaded so I installed this one 
and now there is only a single complaint before the boot fails, the 
whole log is:

{0} ok boot -srv

SC Alert: Host System has Reset
Probing system devices
Probing memory
Probing I/O buses

Sun Fire V245, No Keyboard
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.22.18, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #74468058.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:70:4a:da, Host ID: 84704ada.



Rebooting with command: boot -srv
Boot device: /pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at a/pci at 0/pci at 8/scsi at 1/disk at 0,0:a 
File and args: -srv
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9/unix: text at [0x1000000, 
0x107f8c7] data at 0x1800000
module misc/sparcv9/krtld: text at [0x107f8c8, 0x1099c97] data at 0x184ccc8
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9/genunix: text at [0x1099c98, 
0x12066a7] data at 0x1852a00
module /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V245/kernel/misc/sparcv9/platmod: text at 
[0x12066a8, 0x1206fa7] data at 0x18aa5e0
module /platform/sun4u/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi: text at 
[0x1207000, 0x1217f8f] data at 0x18aae80
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_120011-14 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Ethernet address = 0:14:4f:70:4a:da
/kernel/drv/sparcv9/mpt: undefined symbol 'scsi_sense_ascq'
/kernel/drv/sparcv9/mpt: undefined symbol 'scsi_sense_asc'
/kernel/drv/sparcv9/mpt: undefined symbol 'scsi_sense_key'
WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'mpt'
mpt: cannot load driver
Cannot load drivers for 
/pci at 1e,600000/pci at 0/pci at a/pci at 0/pci at 8/scsi at 1/disk at 0,0:a
Can't load the root filesystem
Type  'go' to resume
{1} ok boot cdrom

Seems pretty crucial. /kernel/drv/sparcv9/mpt is owned by SUNWpd but 
this doesnt show up in showrev -p anywhere. Sun are taking an age to get 
back to me...

Unfortunately, I cant run pca from the cdrom environment otherwise I'd 
be tempted to install all missing patches...

GREG

> 
> 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.
> 
> Martin.
> 
> 


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