[pca] New kernel patch 127127-11

[Martin Paul]

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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?

Same here, and it worked fine, both for 127127 (sparc) and 127128 (x86). 
The machines had active NFS mounts, but did not share NFS filesystems.

> Is your patch actually residing on the NFS server?  I must have missed
> somthing...

If so, one should really try to install it from e.g. /tmp instead.

The README says that the patch should be installed while in single user 
mode, but all kernel patches say this and still it always worked in 
multi-user mode; I install all patches on my Solaris 8/9/10 test 
machines in multi-user mode, and never had problems.

The README doesn't say anything about problems with NFS mounts/shares, 
so this might not be the root cause of the error you get.

>> 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

I agree, that would be horrible. That's why Sun recommends to use Live 
Upgrade to install the patches.

Martin.