[pca] new kernel patches

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Martin,

I just installed 141444-09 on a bunch of Sparc machines in my usual
fashion of "pca -d -i" in multi-user mode with no problems.  However, I
do get a machine as quiet as possible before doing a kernel patch; ie
shut down services like web, ntp, named, and the like.

I don't have any x86 Suns.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Martin Paul wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:05:46 +0200
> From: Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>
> Reply-To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
> To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
> Subject: [pca] new kernel patches
> 
> 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.
>
>