[pca] Patch 138866-02 fails to install

[Mike J]

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:51:21 -0800, Richard Skelton wrote:

> Hi,
> I have the answer from SUN:-
>
> CR# 6791010 - after putback of 6572727, patchadd now fails for certain
> classes of files (etc/sharetab,etc/mnttab)
>
> The bugfix of 6572727 was putback into patch 119254-60. I can see that
> from the previous run of patches that you installed 119254-* was *not*
> included.  However, on the patching run listed below you applied
> 119254-61 which will contain this bugfix (which has introduced the bug
> you have hit).
>
> 119254-60/61 will shortly be marked as bad patches.

Hi,

Nod to Martin and his remarkable time-saving pca tool.

Did a fresh install from the Solaris 10 10/08 media and rebuilt
packages from a UFS disk.  Then went to install additional packages
from the media but couldn't and soon found the reports that 10/08 went
out with vold coredumping on automounting the new distro media...

So patched (with -si missing rs) to get the fix.  pca (20081218-01)
attempted to install 45 patches and on rebooting plenty was screwed,
including the zero-length sharetab issue.  However 119254-60/61 weren't
installed, but 119254-63 went in last night.

Did reboot -- -r between runs of pca (now at 20090112-01) but 18 fail
(repeatedly) with missing patch file errors.  Am is missing something
here, or with a fresh install + patch isn't it a reasonable expectation
to have a spiffy (tm) box booting without a cough from the fault manager?

Mike J