[pca] warning: 125184-08

[Andreas.Jonsson at ica.se]

Hi
Just wanted to warn about 125184-08 as it does not force a reboot after 
being applied. This will probably panic your machines if you use pca (or 
install a patch cluster from sun for that mather), if you do not reboot 
immediatly afterwards. 

Two bricked machines (as the kernel got corrupted, reinstall needed) and a 
call to sun resulted in this response:

> This is one of the scenarios alluded to in Sun Alert#238630
> 
> "Installing Solaris 10 Fibre Channel Device Driver patches without an
> immediate reboot may cause a System Panic";
> CR#6704883
> "Installing fcip patch 125184-05 corrupts kmem_alloc_12288 cache. System
> will panic later."
> 
> The patch cluster was first applying a recent revision of 125184 at a
> point where the kernel already had the fp/fcp/fctl modules loaded at the
> older patch level but not yet the fcip module, and then when patchadd
> got to the SUNWcsd package in 127127-11, the newly-patched fcip module,
> incompatible with the old fp/fcp/fctl, got loaded, resulting in the
> panic.
> 
> This is avoided by first adding the Fibre Channel patch (125184-08
> currently),  then rebooting again into single-user mode with all fc-
> related drivers at the same patch level, and then adding the remainder
> of the patch cluster.  Customer confirms that the patching could be
> completed successfully this way  (after first having restored the
> state from before the failed patching attempt).
> <SNIP>

PS. Please disregard of the silly stuff automatically added to the end of 
this mail. 


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