[pca] New kernel patch 127127-11

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 05:00:41PM -0400, 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'.

Interesting.  I installed this via pca on a server that had active NFS
mounts (and not in single user mode) -- does that fit in with above?
Is your patch actually residing on the NFS server?  I must have missed
somthing...

> 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
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Ray