[pca] patching broke my server!

[Greg Matthews]

Martin Paul wrote:
> Greg Matthews wrote:
>> 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:
> 
> Hm, if you had 137111 installed, you should have the previous kernel 
> patches 120011 and 127127 as well, as they are required by 137111 - 
> patchadd/pca would have refused to install 137111 without the required 
> patches.

well, 127127 was there but 120011 was not. It installed ok when I put it 
on manually tho.

>> 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...
> 
> mpt is included in 127127-11.

not sure why I didnt spot this. probably getting frantic!

> If you have network access after booting from the CDROM, put pca into 
> /tmp, mount the root filesystem (and /var, if it is separate) to /a, and 
> run pca with "--root=/a".

yes, I finally got it running (I needed to set the hostname otherwise 
pca complains that it cannot parse uname -a), I ended up with:

./pca -X /tmp -P /tmp --wget=/mnt/usr/sfw/bin/wget -R /mnt -i missing

Its patching as I type but I didnt see anything in the list of missing 
patches that looks a likely candidate for this problem.

G

> 
> Martin.
> 
> 


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