[pca] patching broke my server!

[Rajiv Gunja]

Greg,
I know this is very hard situation, but do you have a list of patches
you installed on the server? i.e. using PCA? If so, you can create a
reverse list of patches to un-install.

tail -r patch_order > uninstall_patch_order

Boot your system via CD or DVD and mount your root and /var on /a of
the CDROM, write a script (for loop, reading uninstall_patch_order)
and remove all the patches you installed.
-----
for eachpatch in `cat /a/var/uninstall_patch_order`
do
patchrm -R /a $eachpatch
done | tee -a /a/var/uninstall_patch_log
-----

See if this helps.

Once the OS is bootable again, if you are using Veritas Mirroring,
break the mirror, unencapsulate the disk, create a ABE using lucreate
(LU) install patches to ABE, thus you will be safe if anything should
go wrong.

If you need more information about LU patching please let me know. We
have about 4000+ Solaris servers and we mostly use LU patching which
saves time and any patch issues.

-GGR
Rajiv G Gunja


On 08/08/2008, Greg Matthews <gmatt at nerc.ac.uk> wrote:
> Greg Matthews wrote:
>> Its patching as I type but I didnt see anything in the list of missing
>> patches that looks a likely candidate for this problem.
>
> As I feared, it didnt fix the problem but it did change it slightly, the
> boot failure now looks like:
>
> 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, 0x1206f8f] data at 0x18aa5e0
> module /platform/sun4u/kernel/cpu/sparcv9/SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi: text at
> [0x1207000, 0x1217f8f] data at 0x18aae40
> 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/sd: undefined symbol 'ddi_prop_op_nblocks_blksize'
> WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'sd'
> sd: 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
>
> It is now complaining about a different symbol in a different module!
>
>>
>> G
>>
>>>
>>> Martin.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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