[pca] Patching Solaris 10

[David W. Smith]

Be careful when applying 120012-14, as it can corrupt your system and
cause it not to boot.  

See the following Sun Alert and refer to the README file.

Document Audience:PUBLIC
Document ID:200832
Old Document ID:(formerly 103155)
Title:Solaris 10 Systems May Fail to Come up if Patches Are Applied
After Kernel Patches 120011-14 (SPARC) and 120012-14 (x86) and Before
the Reboot

David

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:51 -0400, Fred Chagnon wrote:
> Yeah, this isn't a pca issue at all. You would get the same error if
> you used patchadd directly. 
> I've been having a heck of a time myself getting deferred activation
> patches to work in my current patch scheme. I'm not sure about 118833,
> but my deferred activation issues apply to the following:
> 
> 120011-14 (sparc) and 120012-14 (x86)
> 127127-11 (sparc) and 127128-11 (x86)
> 
> Note that I have no issues with kernel patches 137111-06 (sparc) and
> 137112-06 (x86) because they are not tagged SUNW_SAFE_MODE. 
> 
> I only mention all this because it's possible your issues are
> related. 
> 
> Fred
> 
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Sapin, Hugues <hsapin at rgare.ca> wrote:
>         I have faced same symptoms with patch 120011-14 few weeks ago
>         on a server and still have to log a call to SUN.
>         
>         It has nothing to do with the tool used to patch (pca in this
>         case) but my understanding is the patch itself is at stake.
>         
>         Hugues.
>         
>         
>         -----Message d'origine-----
>         De : pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at
>         [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] De la part de
>         Cromwell, Ray, VF-IE
>         Envoyé : Friday, September 05, 2008 4:23 AM
>         À : PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
>         Objet : [pca] Patching Solaris 10
>         
>         
>         Hi ,
>            Has anyone had any problems patching Solaris 10 .
>         Server had problems installing allot of patches which pca
>         recommended .
>         e.g.
>         
>         This Kernel patch failed with the following errors . Got allot
>         of these
>         errors with other patches also .
>         
>         Patchadd is terminating.
>         Installing 118833-36...
>         Validating patches...
>         
>         Loading patches installed on the system...
>         
>         Done!
>         
>         Loading patches requested to install.
>         
>         Version of package SUNWcakr from directory SUNWcakr.v in patch
>         118833-36
>         differs from the package installed on the system.
>         Version of package SUNWkvm from directory SUNWkvm.v in patch
>         118833-36
>         differs from the package installed on the system.
>         Version of package SUNWcakr from directory SUNWcakr.us in
>         patch
>         118833-36 differs from the package installed on the system.
>         Version of package SUNWkvm from directory SUNWkvm.us in patch
>         118833-36
>         differs from the package installed on the system.
>         Done!
>         
>         The following requested patches have packages not installed on
>         the
>         system
>         Package SUNWcart200 from directory SUNWcart200.v in patch
>         118833-36 is
>         not installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWcart200
>         wil
>         l not be applied to the system.
>         Package SUNWcti2 from directory SUNWcti2.u in patch 118833-36
>         is not
>         installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWcti2 will not
>         be
>         applied to the system.
>         Package SUNWcvcr from directory SUNWcvcr.u in patch 118833-36
>         is not
>         installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWcvcr will not
>         be
>         applied to the system.
>         Package SUNWdcsr from directory SUNWdcsr in patch 118833-36 is
>         not
>         installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWdcsr will not
>         be ap
>         plied to the system.
>         Package SUNWdcsu from directory SUNWdcsu in patch 118833-36 is
>         not
>         installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWdcsu will not
>         be ap
>         plied to the system.
>         Package SUNWdrcr from directory SUNWdrcr.u in patch 118833-36
>         is not
>         installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWdrcr will not
>         be
>         applied to the system.
>         Package SUNWdrr from directory SUNWdrr.u in patch 118833-36 is
>         not
>         installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWdrr will not
>         be app
>         lied to the system.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
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> -- 
> Fred Chagnon
> fchagnon at gmail.com
>