[pca] Patching Solaris 10
Sapin, Hugues
hsapin at rgare.ca
Fri Sep 5 16:19:32 CEST 2008
Agrees. I have learned it the hard way.
I have applied 120011-14 on 4 distinct Solaris 10 11/06 servers recently.
No problem with 3 of them but major issue on the last one.
Last server would not reboot until I tried to boot on second (mirrored) OS disk to my relief.
Then was able to apply additional patches and reboot without any new problem.
Of course everything went fine on the first Lab and the DEV servers and faced issue only with the Production one :-(
Hugues.
-----Message d'origine-----
De : pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] De la part de David W. Smith
Envoyé : Friday, September 05, 2008 10:10 AM
À : PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Objet : Re: [pca] Patching Solaris 10
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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