[pca] New kernel patch 127127-11

[Jeff Wieland]

Mike Moya wrote:
> it appears that if you have a mounted/exported file system this patch
> will not install. You get the following error:
> 
> mount: Mount point /var/run/.patchSafeMode/root/home/xxx/a does not exist.
> Mount operation failed - /sbin/mount -F lofs -o nosub  /home/xxx/a 
> /var/run/.patchSafeMode/root/home/xxx/a
> Could not successfully create environment for 'deferred activation 
> patching'.
> 
> Therefore forcing the patch get installed in single user mode. It just 
> isn't reasonable to have to install
> ~150 file servers by hand in single user mode (rather than scripted at 
> 1AM when nothing is going on). Is there a way to turn off this "safe mode"?
> --mike
> 

Yeah -- I saw this too -- it's bad enough with 16 servers.  The
README should be a heckuvalot more descriptive about what is going
on here.

Unless there is a better solution, we'll probably install all of the
other patches first, then reboot into single-user mode, install the
kernel patch, and then reboot again.
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