[pca] patch issue

[Dominique Frise]

Hi Don,

We have about 10 Sparc servers with emlxs drivers impacted by this 
issue. In other words: we are also waiting for a fix !

Thanks,

Dominique


Don O'Malley wrote:
> Hi Kevin/Brian,
> 
> As this CR has Escalations open against it there should be a patch 
> containing the fix available for it before May 2010.
> 
> I'm not sure roughly when you could expect a fix; I'll do some digging 
> and see if I can find out.
> 
> Best,
> -Don
> 
> Bliss, Kevin L wrote:
>> I spaced that one, but that makes the delivery date way out there, I hope the SE is wrong or I will have to back out the existing patch.  
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Brian R Myers
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:29 AM
>> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [pca] patch issue
>>
>> Kevin,
>>
>> Update 8 was just released the beginning of last month.  If Sun's schedule holds constant, update 9 should be released in May 2010.
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Bliss, Kevin L
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:49 AM
>> To: 'PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion'
>> Subject: Re: [pca] patch issue
>>
>> I opened a case with Sun, the engineer opened a bug, they found that the bug was a duplicate so closed the new one.  The fix is supposedly complete but won't be available until Sol 10 update 9 (which I thought was available).  In case you are interested the bug is CR6797442.  Not as much detail as you received in your ticket but neither is complete.  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Hannu Kivimäki
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:23 AM
>> To: pca at lists.univie.ac.at
>> Subject: Re: [pca] patch issue
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:09 -0700, Bliss, Kevin L wrote:
>>   
>>> This is not a pca issue but may be helpful to those on the list.  A
>>> recent Solaris 10 patch has created a "compatibility" issue with fmd
>>> which causes it to log 10+ errors per second to /var/fm/fmd/errlog.  I
>>> only noticed because one of the systems patched was running low on
>>> space.  I opened a case with Sun yesterday morning but so far have not
>>> received any useful information, including which patch caused the
>>> problem.  The system is the following error being logged several times a
>>> second:
>>>
>>> Oct 21 2009 12:35:09.061332556 ereport.io.ddi.fm-capability
>>> nvlist version: 0
>>>         class = ereport.io.ddi.fm-capability
>>>         ena = 0x2196595e6b07001
>>>         detector = (embedded nvlist)
>>>         nvlist version: 0
>>>                 version = 0x0
>>>                 scheme = dev
>>>                 device-path = /
>>>         (end detector)
>>>
>>>         dvr-name = fp
>>>         __ttl = 0x1
>>>         __tod = 0x4adf626d 0x3a7dc4c
>>>     
>>
>> A quick note about this older topic - I patched some servers yesterday
>> and
>> noticed /var/fm/fmd/errlog getting filled with
>> ereport.io.ddi.fm-capability
>> messages (500+ MB of them overnight). Contacted Sun Support and they
>> told
>> me to back out Emulex patch 141876-05. FMA support was introduced in
>> 141876-03 and apparently something broke it already in 141876-05.
>>
>> We never had any revisions of 141876 installed before, so after
>> removing 141876-05, we are now back to Emulex patch 139608-05 with
>> no fmd issues. I guess we have to wait for 141876-06 before trying
>> patching Emulex HBA drivers again.
>>
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>> Hannu
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