[pca] new kernel patches

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Wed Oct 14 11:05:46 CEST 2009


The new kernel patches for Solaris 10 (from 10/09) have been published 
today:

   141444-09: SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
   141445-09: SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch

As always, the README states that they should be installed in 
single-user mode and a reconfiguration boot should follow the installation.

As always, I installed them in multi-user mode and continued to add 
other patches on my test machines :) This time, though, the x86 system 
refused to install further patches; patchadd showed an error about not 
being able to create a lock, seems to be connected to pkgserv. Plus, 
when I issued an "init 6" to reboot the machines I got a syslog error:

   /var/log/kern: ... unix: NOTICE: unrecognized ioctl 0x69534331

The machines didn't go down; I had to use "reboot" and/or "Stop-A; 
reset-all" to get them to reboot cleanly.

Beware - I do *not* say that the patches are faulty, just that it might 
be a good idea to follow Sun's advice to *really* install those in 
single-user mode. I definitely would do that on any production machine.

Martin.



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